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COMMISSION 
OF 

WISCONSIN 



STATUTES RELATING 



TO 



WILD ANIMALS 



These laws are in force and effect until July 1, 1921, and 

beyond that date unless changed by the legislature 

of 1921, or changed under Section 29.21 




Published by the 
STATE OF WISCONSIN 
Madison, 1919 - 



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STATE CONSERVATION 

COMMISSION 

OP 

WISCONSIN 



STATUTES RELATING 



TO 



WILD ANIMALS 



These laws are in force and effect until July 1, 1921, &n4 

beyond that date unless changed by the legislature 

of 1921, or changed under Sectiom 29.21 







Published by the 

STATE OF WISCONSIN 

Madison, 1919 






n, of i>. 

FEB 3 1920 



FOREWORD 



The state conservation commission publishes 
this compilation of laws regulating the taking of 
fish and game in Wisconsin for the information 
and convenience of the public. The compilation 
includes the laws enacted by the legislature of 
1919, so that it contains the latest word on fish 
and game conservation. 

During the past four years the public has come 
to a better understanding of the term and pur- 
poses of the fish and game laws of the state. It 
has come to see that the regulatory measures en- 
forced by the conservation commission are not 
meant to deprive the public of the pleasure of 
hunting, fishing and trapping, but to enlarge and 
perpetuate those pleasures. There is not a law 
in the whole list of these laws regulating the 
taking of fish and game that does not make for 
this end. Because of this better understanding 
the commission is aided in its work by a much 
more friendly cooperation on the part of the 
public. 

This friendly attitude was plainly reflected bj 
the sentiment of the members of the legislature 
of 1919. At no previous session was there so 
marked a readiness to assist the commission 
with appropriate laws. Every request made by 
the conservation commission was given careful 
consideration, and with but few exceptions all 
the new laws asked for were enacted. 

Rather heavy penalties for the violation of the 
conservation laws are provided but this seems 



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to be necessary. When the state is attempting 
to increase the fish and game supply — and this 
means an important" addition to the food supply 
— men who in a spirit of sheer selfishness disre- 
gard the provisions made for such purposes 
should be severely dealt with. The minimum 
fine enforced for the violation of any conserva- 
tion law is $50.00 and the maximum fine $1000.00. 
The conservation commission has received 
great assistance from the fish and game pro- 
tective associations of the state, also from the 
Wisconsin Fish and Game Protective Associa- 
tion, Incorporated, and hopes for a continuation 
of such assistance. The commission asks that 
every citizen of the state who believes in the j 
protection of fish and game shall furnish it any 
information he may gain of the violation or 
threatened violation of the conservation laws. 

The* suppression of forest fires is particularly 
called to the attention of every citizen of the 
state and the fire warden department needs the 
most hearty cooperation of every citizen, as a 
conflagration such as visited Minnesota last year 
might occur in Wisconsin if every precaution is 
not taken in obviating this danger. 

The commission will deeply appreciate the 
cooperation of every citizen in the enforcement 
of these laws. 

W. E. Barber, 

James Nevin, 

C. L. Harrington, 

Commissioners. 



NAMES AND ADDRESSES OP 
CONSERVATION WARDENS 



Name Post-Office Address County 

Bekschens, M. L., Madison, 439 W. Dayton St., Dane 
Boomer, I. H., Oshkosli, Box 351, Winnebago 
Bosworth, E. F., Merrill, Lincoln 
Brunet, A. R., Fond du Lac, 53 Amory St., Fond 

du Lac 
Carter, J. B., Rice Lake, Barron 
Cole, W. A., Vesper, Wood 
Cowles, C. C, Shawano, Shawano 
Cranston, D. M., Green Bay, Box 208, Biown 
Curtis, P. ,S., Viroqua, Vernon 
Diedrich, Peter, Milwaukee, 491 Superior St., 

Milwaukee 
Devine, Thomas, Spooner, Washburn 
Dockham, F. A., Baraboo, Sauk 
Egan, John, Manitowoc, 1406 Clark St., Manitowoc 
Elliott, W. P., Whitewater, Walworth 
Fess, Edward, Madison, 605 Willard Ave., Dane 
Fosnot, John B., Tomahawk, Lincoln 
Foster, J. W., Wausau, Marathon 
Gautsch, E. W., La Crosse, La Crosse 
Grey, W. T., Rice Lake, Barron 
Gruebner, H. C, Sheboygan, 1330 N. 16th St., 

Sheboygan 
Gwidt, S. J., Rhinelander, Oneida 
Hall, A. W., Darlington, La Fayette 
Hall, George F., Rubicon, Dodge 
Hendrickson, Hans, Two Rivers, Manitowoc 
Hilliker, Earl, Tunnel City, Monroe 
Holmes, A. A., Trempealeau, Trempealeau 
Hood, Ralph, Lone Rock, Richland 
Hull, G. F., Wittenberg, Shawano 
Jakoubek, K. C, Phillips, Price 
Jeske, Louis, Sturgeon Bay, Door 
Keeler, J. G., Bagley, Grant 
Kincannon, W. H., Birchwood, Washburn 
Kliest, Michael, Kenosha, Kenosha 



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Keyes, W. iL, Princeton, Green Lake 
Kelsey, J. V., Stevens Point, Portage 
Lanning, B. P., Black River Palls, Jackson 
Lee, Albert, Luck, Polk 
Little, C. S., Stanley, Chippewa 
Mason, W. P., Janesville, Rock 
Mackenzie, H. W., Antigo, Langlade 
McNatjghton, James, Superior, East End, Douglas 
Oberholtzer, H. J., Eagle River, Vilas 
Powell, A. W., Bayfield, Bayfield 
Pooler, W. D., Superior, East End, Douglas 
Pugh, John, Racine, 1028 Park Ave., Racine 
Raeth, Val, Milwaukee, 432 East North Ave., 

Milwaukee 
Randall, P. D., Waupaca, Waupaca 
Richtman, S. P., Fountain City, Buffalo 
Russell, Prank P., Park Palls, Price 
Sampson, Andrew, Stoughton, Dane 
Smith, Denton H., Marinette, 825 Wells St., 

Marinette 
Smith, Ira G., Green Bay, Box 255, Brown 
Soule, L. M., Ladysmith, Rusk 
Swant, M. P., Menomonie, 921 Main St., Dunn 
Tiedeman, H. C, Thorp, Clark 
Ttjttle, E. W., Oconomowoc, Waukesha 
Upson, E. D., Merrillan, Jackson 
Wisner, W. W., Drummond, Bayfield 
Worden, J. D., Plainfield, Waushara 
Christensen, P. C, Trout Lake, Vilas 
Cook, J. B., Star Lake, Vilas 
Preund, Henry, Boulder Junction, Vilas 
Long, P. J., Sayner, Vilas 
Smith, P. R., Tomahawk Lake, Oneida 
Weaver, E. M., Woodruff, Oneida 
DooLiTTLE, A. E., Fish Creek, Door 
Lawrence, P. A, Bagley, Grant 
Smith, Atwood, Devils Lake, Sauk 
Durkee, Ben, Wild Rose, Waushara 
Ripple, R. L., Bayfield, Bayfield 
Webster, B. O., Delafield, Waukesha 
SuTHERS, Frank, Sturgeon Bay, Door 



WISCONSIN STATUTES 

Chapter 29 

Wild animals, and the regulation of the 

enjoyment, disposition and 

conservation thereof. 

GENERAL. CONTROL AND REGULATION 

29.01 General Definitions. The following 
terms, wherever used in this chapter, shall be 
construed to apply as follows: 

(1) Wild animal. "Wild animal" means any 
mammal, bird, fish, or other creature of a wild 
nature endowed with sensation and the power of 
voluntary motion. 

(2) Carcass. "Carcass" means the dead body 
of any wild animal to which it refers, including 
the head, hair, skin, plumage, skeleton, or any 
other part thereof. 

(3) Game; game fish. "Game" includes all va- 
rieties of mammals or birds for which, at any 
time of the year anywhere within the state, a 
close season is prescribed in or pursuant to this 
chapter; "game fish" includes all varieties of 
fish except rough fish; and, until the state con- 
servation commission otherwise determines, 
"rough fish" includes chubs, dace, suckers, carp, 
red horse, sheephead, eelpout, dogfish, garfish, 
buffalo fish, hackelback sturgeon weighing more 
than one pound dressed, spoonbill sturgeon over 
thirty inches in length, catfish over fifteen inches 
in length, and lawyers, in all waters, and bull- 



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heads, sunfish and croppies over seven inches in 
length, and pickerel in Lakes Winnebago, Win- 
neconne, Poygan, Big Butte des Morts, Little 
Butte des Morts, Fox River in Winnebago 
county, and Puckaway Lake. 

(4) Waters classified. Ail waters within the 
jurisdiction of the state are classified as follows: 
Lakes Superior and Lake Michigan and the har- 
bors and bays immediately connected therewith, 
Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor, and 
the Fox river from its mouth up to the dam at 
De Pere are "outlying waters." All other wa- 
ters are "inland waters." 

(5) Hunting. "Hunt" or "hunting" includes 
shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, catching, 
or killing of any wild animal or animals. 

29.02 Title to Wild Animals. (1) The legal 
title to, and the custody and protection of, all 
wild animals within this state is vested in t..3 
state for the purposes of regulating the enjoy- 
ment, use, disposition, and conservation thereof. 

(2) The legal title to any such wild animal, 
or carcass or part thereof, taken or reduced to 
possession in violation of this chapter, remains 
in the state; and the title to any such wild ani- 
mal, or carcass or part thereof, lawfully ac- 
quired, is subject to the condition that upon the 
violation of any of the provisions of this chapter 
relating to the possession, use, giving, sale, bar- 
ter, or transportation of such wild animal, or 
carcass or part thereof, by the holder of such 
title, the same shall revert, ipso facto, to the 
state. In either case, any such wild animal, or 
carcass or part thereof, may be seized forthwith, 
wherever found, by the state conservation com- 
mission or its deputies. 



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29.03 Public Nuisances. The following are 
declared public nuisances: 

(1) Any unlicensed net of any kind, or other 
unlicensed devise, trap, or contrivance for fish- 
ing; or any licensed net or other device, trap or 
contrivance for fishing set, placed, or found in 
any waters where the same is prohibited to be 
used, or in a manner prohibited by law. 

(2) Any unlicensed set line, cable, rope, or 
line, with more than one fish line attached there- 
to; or any licensed set line set, placed, or found 
In any waters where the same is prohibited to be 
used, or in a manner prohibited by law; or any 
fish line left in the water unattended, whether 
having one or more hooks attached. 

(3) Any screen set in public waters to pre- 
vent the free passage of fish, or set in any stream 
which has been stocked by state authorities. 

(4) Any building, enclosure, structure, or 
shelter placed, occupied, or used on the ice of 
any waters in violation of this chapter. 

(5) Any unlicensed trap, snare, spring gun, 
set gun, net or other device or contrivance which 
might entrap, ensnare, or kill game. 

(6) Any boat, together with its machinery, 
sails, tackle and equipment, or any lamp, light, 
pivot gun, swivel gun, or other firearm used in 
violation of this chapter; or any boat, floating 
raft, box, or blind set in open water and used in 
hunting game birds. 

(7) Any decoys set in any water during the 
close season for water-fowl, or in excess of the 
number authorized to be used, or more than two 
hundred feet from the weeds, rushes, or other 
vegetation in which the hunter is concealed; and 
any decoys left in the water unattended. 



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( 8 ) Any dog found running deer at any time, 
or used in violation of this chapter. 

(9) Any ferret, rat, weasel, or guinea-pig in 
possession or used while hunting. 

29.04 (1) Abandoned Dams. The state con- 
servation commission may remove or cause to be 
removed, in such manner as they may deem fit, 
old and abandoned dams in streams in the state 
of Wisconsin, upon giving sixty days' notice in 
writing to the owner thereof, if he can be found. 
If the owner of such dam be unknown or cannot, 
by due diligence, be found, the commission shall 
publish notice once each week for four successive 
weeks in some newspaper published in the 
county in which such dam is situated. 

(2) Whenever the conservation commission 
shall determine that the conservation of any 
species or variety of wild animals will be pro- 
moted thereby, the commission is authorized to 
maintain and repair any dam located wholly 
upon lands the title to which is in the state 
either as proprietor or in trust for the people; 
subject, however, to the powers of the railroad 
commission to fix the level and regulate the flow 
of the public waters. 

29.05 Police Powers; Searches; Seizures. 

(I) Arrests. The state conservation commis- 
sion and its deputies are hereby authorized to 
execute and serve all warrants and processes is- 
sued by any justice of the peace or police magis- 
trate or by any court having jurisdiction under 
any law relating to wild animals, in the same 
manner as any constable may serve and execute 
such process; and to arrest, with or without a 
warrant, any person detected in the actual vio- 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 5 

lation, or whom such officer has reasonable cause 
to believe guilty of the violation of any of the 
provisions of this chapter, and to take such per- 
son before any court and make proper complaint. 
(2) Investigations. Such officers shall, upon 
receiving notice or information that any provi- 
sion of this chapter has been violated, as soon 
as possible make a thorough investigation there- 
of, and cause proceedings to be instituted if 
the proofs at hand warrant it. 

(3) Search warrants. Upon complaint made 
to any magistrate who has authority to issue 
warrants in criminal cases, by any person that he 
knows or has good reason to. believe that any 
wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, caught, 
taken, killed, or had in possession contrary to 
the provisions of this chapter, is concealed in 
any particular house or place, the magistrate 
shall examine such complainant on oath, reduce 
his complaint to writing, describing as particu- 
larly as may be the place where said wild ani- 
mal, or carcass or part thereof, is alleged to be 
concealed, and cause the same to be subscribed 
by the person complaining. If it appears to the 
magistrate that there is reasonable cause to be- 
lieve that the facts alleged in said complaint are 
true he shall immediately issue his warrant, re- 
citing therein the substance of the complaint and 
a description of the premises described therein, 
and requiring the officer to whom it is directed to 
forthwith search such premises and seize any 
such wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, and 
bring the same when found, and the person in 
whose possession the same is found, -before the 
magistrate who issued the warrant, or before 
some other magistrate or court having jurisdic- 



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tion of the case. The officer executing such war- 
rant shall state in his return, as particularly as 
may be, the property seized, which shall be safe- 
ly kept under the direction of the court or mag- 
istrate so long as necessary for the purpose of 
being used as evidence on any trial; and if such 
trial results in a conviction, the property so 
seized shall be confiscated. 

(4) Opening packages. The state conserva- 
tion commission and its deputies may examine 
and open any packages in the possession of a 
common carrier which they suspect or have rea- 
son to believe contains contraband wild animals, 
or carcasses or parts thereof, or is falsely labeled 
in violation of the provisions of this chapter; 
and every such common carrier, and every agent, 
servant, or employe thereof, shall permit any 
such officer to examine and open any such pack- 
age. Any package so opened shall be restored 
to its original condition. 

(5) Access to storage places. They shall be 
permitted by the owner or occupant of any cold 
storage warehouse or buildings used for the stor- 
age or retention of wild animals, or carcasses 
or parts thereof, to enter and examine said prem- 
ises; and the said owner or occupant, or his 
agent, servant, or employe, shall deliver to any 
such officer any wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, in his possession during the close sea- 
son therefor, whether taken within or without 
the state. 

(6) Seizure and confiscation of game, or 
game fish. , They shall seize and confiscate in 
the name of the state any wild animal, or carcass 
or part thereof, caught, killed, taken, had in 
possession or under control, sold or transported 



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in violation of this chapter; and any such officer 
may, with or without warrant, open, enter and 
examine all buildings, camps, vessels or boats in 
inland or outlying waters, wagons, automobiles 
or other vehicles, cars, stages, tents, suit-cases, 
valises, packages and other receptacles and 
places where he has reason to believe that wild 
animals, taken or held in violation of this chap- 
ter, are to be found; but no dwelling house or 
sealed railroad cars shall be searched for the 
above purposes without a warrant. 

(7) Seizure and confiscation of property. 
They shall seize and forthwith confiscate or de- 
stroy any apparatus, appliance, or device de- 
clared by any provision of this chapter to be a 
public nuisance; and shall seize and hold sub- 
ject to the order of the commission, any other 
apparatus, appliance, or any vehicle, or device, 
which they shall have reason to believe is being 
used in violation of this chapter, and if it be 
proven that the same is, or has been within six 
months previous to such seizure, used in viola- 
tion of this chapter the same shall be confiscated. 

(8) Entire shipment affected. Confiscation 
of any part of a shipment under this section 
shall include the entire shipment. 

(9) Exemption from liability. Each commis- 
sioner and each deputy conservation warden, in 
the performance of his official duties, shall be 
exempt from any and all liability to any person 
for acts done or permitted or property destroyed 
by authority of law; and in any action brought 
against any such commissioner or warden per- 
sonally, arising from alleged excess of his au- 
thority, the taxable costs awarded to either party 
shall include a reasonable attorney's fee, to be 



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fixed by the court, provided the party has ap- 
peared therein by an attorney of a court of 
record. 

29.06 Sales of Confiscated Game and Appara- 
tus. (1) All confiscated wild animals, or car- 
casses or parts thereof, and all confiscated ap- 
paratus, appliances, or devices shall, if not de- 
stroyed as authorized by law, be sold at the high- 
est price obtainable, by the state conservation 
commission or its deputies, or by an agent on 
commission under the written authority and su- 
pervision of the state conservation commission 
or its deputies. The net proceeds of such sales, 
after deducting the expense of seizure and sale 
and any such commissions, shall be promptly re- 
mitted by the warden by whom or under whose 
authority and supervision the sales are made, 
to the state conservation commission and by it 
paid into the state treasury; the remittance to 
be accompanied by a complete and certified re- 
port of such sales, supported by proper vouchers 
covering all deductions made for expenses and 
commissions, to be filed for record in the office 
of the state conservation commission. 

(2) On any such sales of wild animals, or 
carcasses or parts thereof, the warden or agent 
selling them shall issue to each purchaser a cer- 
tificate, on forms to be prepared and furnished 
by the state conservation commission, covering 
such sales. The animals, or carcasses or parts 
thereof, so purchased shall be consumed or oth- 
erwise disposed of by the purchaser within five 
days thereafter, but shall not be resold, bartered, 
or exchanged, in whole or in part, to any other 
person, except as provided in subsection (3). 



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(3) Confiscated fish or game sold to the 
keeper, manager, or steward of any restaurant, 
club, hotel, or boarding house may be served to 
the guests thereof; but in such case the certifi- 
cate covering the purchase shall be hung in pub- 
lic view in the place where the fish or game is 
served, and such fish or game shall at the time 
of sale be tagged by the warden or agent selling 
it, such tag to show the date of sale and be re- 
turned to said warden or agent within five days 
thereafter. 

29.07 Assistance of Police Officers. All sher- 
iffs, deputy sheriffs, coroners, and other police 
officers are ex officio deputy conservation war- 
dens, and shall assist the state conservation com- 
mission and its deputies in the enforcement of 
this chapter whenever notice of a violation there- 
of is given to either of them by the commission 
or its deputies. 

29.08 Interstate Comity. (1) Whenever and 
so long as any other state confers upon the offi- 
cers of this state reciprocal powers, any officer 
of such other state, who is by the laws of said 
state authorized or directed to enforce the laws 
of said state relating to the protection of wild 
animals, is hereby designated an agent of said 
state within this state. It shall be lawful for 
said officer to follow any wild animal, or carcass 
or part thereof unlawfully shipped or taken from 
his state into this state, seize and convey the 
same back to his own state; and so far as con- 
cerns any such wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, the laws of the state from which the 
same was brought into this state are hereby 



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adopted as the laws of this state. Transporta- 
tion companies shall deliver to such officer, upon 
submission of proper proof of his official capa- 
city, any wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, 
so demanded or seized by him. Said officer may 
dispose of any such wild animal, or carcass or 
part thereof, within this state, in accordance 
with the laws of the state from which the same 
was taken or shipped, under the supervision of 
any conservation commissioner or deputy con- 
servation warden of this state, whose expenses 
for his assistance shall be a lien upon such 
wild animal or carcass or part thereof, or the 
proceeds thereof. 

(2) Except as provided in subsection (1), 
the state conservation commission or its deputies 
shall seize, hold and. dispose, according to the 
laws of this state, of any wild animal, or carcass 
or part thereof, brought or shipped into or 
through this state, or attempted to be carried 
through this state, in violation of the laws of 
any other state. 

(3) The state game warden of every other 
state, and his deputies and all other officers 
therein charged with the enforcement of the 
laws relating to wild animals are hereby desig- 
nated agents of this state for the taking posses- 
sion, seizing, holding and disposing, within such 
state, of any wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, protected by the laws of this state. 

(4) Whenever and so long as any other state 
confers upon the officers of this state reciprocal 
powers, the state conservation commission is 
hereby authorized to appoint persons who shall 
have been appointed conservation wardens or 
deputy conservation wardens of such other state 



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t» act as and have all the powers of deputy con- 
servation wardens of this state, but without com- 
pensation from this state. 



GAME LICENSES 

29.09 General Provisions. (1) Hunting, 
trapping or fishing without a license prohibited. 
Except as expressly provided, no person shall 
hunt, with a gun any wild animal or, trap or fish 
any game or game fish unless a license therefor 
has been duly issued to him which shall be car- 
ried on his person at the time and shall be ex- 
hibited to the state conservation commission or 
its deputies on demand. Such licenses shall be 
issued only to natural persons, and not more 
than one of the same series to the same person 
in any year. No licensee shall transfer his li- 
cense or deer tag to or permit the use thereof 
by any other person, nor shall any person while 
hunting, trapping or fishing use or carry any 
license, or guide's badge, issued to another. No 
hunting license shall be issued to any person 
who is less than fifteen years of age; nor to any 
person who is not a citizen of the United States. 
Indians hunting, fishing or trapping off Indian 
reservation lands are subject to all provisions 
of this chapter. 

(.2) Form of application. The application 
for such license shall state the residence and 
post-office address of the applicant, a description 
of his person, and such other facts, showing him 
to be entitled to the license for which he applies, 
as may be required by the commission, and shall 
be verified by the affidavit of the applicant; but 



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ao written or verified application shall be re- 
quired for any hook and line fishing license. 
Each such application shall be accompanied by 
the license fee prescribed for the license applied 
for. 

(3) Form of license. Each license shall state 
for what year the same is issued and the date 
of expiration, and except as otherwise provided 
shall be effective only from the first day of May 
until the next succeeding thirtieth day of April, 
subject to the conditions, limitations and restric- 
tions prescribed in this chapter. Each license 
issued shall further state the name and residence 
of the licensee, a description of his person, and 
such other matter as may be determined by the 
commission; shall bear upon its face a true sig- 
nature of the licensee; and shall be signed by 
the officer who issues it. 

(4) Duplicates. Whenever any such license 
is lost the person to whom the same was issued 
may present to the commission an affidavit prov- 
ing such loss, together with a fee of fifty cents, 
whereupon the latter shall issue a duplicate li- 
cense to such person. 

(5) Supply of blanks. The commission shall 
prepare, procure the printing of, and supply all 
necessary blanks for such licenses and applica- 
tions. The licenses shall be numbered consecu- 
tively, at the time of printing, in a separate se- 
ries for each kind of license; and each license 
blank shall be provided with a corresponding 
stub numbered with the serial number of the 
license. Each requisition for the printing of 
such license blanks shall specify the serial num- 
bers thereof. 



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(6) Licenses issued by county cleric. Of 
each license issued by a county clerk he shall 
retain the stub for record in his office. He shall 
also keep an alphabetical index of the names of 
all persons to whom he issues licenses, such 
names to be entered therein at the time the li- 
censes are issued. The state conservation com- 
mission or its deputies may at any time examine 
such records. 

(7) Return of fees by county clerk. Of the 
fees paid for such licenses the county clerk may 
retain ten per cent as compensation for his serv- 
ices to the state; the remainder he shall return 
to the state conservation commission on the first 
day of each month, with a report of the number 
of licenses issued by him during the preceding 
month and- the amount of money thus remitted. 
All stubs of licenses issued and all unused li- 
cense blanks shall be returned by the county 
clerk to the commission at the close of the year 
for which they are supplied. 

(8) Record of licenses issued. A complete 
record of all licenses issued shall be kept by the 
commission, which shall also be accountable for 
all unused license blanks. (Penalty $50.00— 
$100.00.) 

29.10 Resident Hunting Licenses. Resident 
hunting licenses shall be issued subject to the 
provisions of section 29.09, by the county clerks 
of the several counties upon blanks supplied to 
them by the state conservation commission, to 
residents of each such county duly applying, 
therefor who have resided in this state for at 
least one year next preceding the application. 
Th<a fee for each such license is one dollar. Such 



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license does not grant the privilege of hunting 
deer unless the licensee is in possession of a deer 
tag numbered to correspond with his license, 
which shall be issued to him by the state conser- 
vation commission on application and the pay- 
ment of an additional fee of ten cents. The 
commission may cause such tags to be issued 
through agents, but no commission to be allowed 
for the sale of such tags. (Penalty $50-$ 100.) 

29.11 Settlers' Bunting Licenses. Settlers 
hunting licenses subject to the provisions of sec- 
tion 29.09 may be issued by the state conserva- 
tion commission in its discretion, to actual set- 
tlers in this state duly applying therefor who 
have resided in this state less than one year next 
preceding the application. A bona fide settler 
shall be a person who has either purchased or 
rented, or has negotiations in progress to pur- 
chase or rent residence property in Wisconsin 
and who has moved to and settled in this state. 
Such licenses shall be in substantially the same 
form, subject to the same conditions and restric- 
tions, and entitle the holder to the same rights, 
privileges and immunities as a resident hunting 
license. No nonresident hunting license shall be 
issued in the same year to any person to whom 
a settlers' hunting license has been issued, and 
no settlers' hunting license to any holder of a 
nonresident hunting license. (Penalty $50- 
$100.) 

29.12 Nonresident Hunting Licenses. (1) 

Nonresident hunting licenses shall be either gen- 
eral or limited, and shall be issued by the state 
conservation commission, subject to the provi- 
sions of section 29.09, to persons duly applying 



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therefor who are not residents of this state or 
who have resided therein less than one year next 
preceding the application. The fee for each such 
general license is fifty dollars, and for each such 
limited license twenty-five dollars. 

(2) Each such general license shall extend to 
the hunting of all wild animals during the open 
season therefor, respectively, and shall be ac- 
companied by a deer tag, numbered to corre- 
spond with the license and to be supplied with- 
out additional fee. 

(3) Each such limited license shall extend to 
the hunting of all wild animals during the open 
season therefor, respectively, except deer. The 
holder of such limited license may at any time 
before its expiration surrender the same for can- 
cellation, and in lieu thereof, upon payment of 
an additional fee of twenty-five dollars, the com- 
mission shall issue to him a general license as 
prescribed in subsection (2). (Penalty $50.00— 
$100.00.) 

29.13 Trapping Licenses. (1) Trapping li- 
censes, which shall authorize the use of traps for 
trapping fishers, martens, minks, muskrats, rac- 
coons, and skunks, shall be issued by the state 
conservation commission, subject to the provi- 
sions of section 29.09, to persons duly applying 
therefor who have resided in this state for at 
least one year next preceding the application. 
The fee for each such license is one dollar. 

(2) All shipments of hides must be marked 
showing the number and kinds of hides in the 
package, the name and address of the shipper, 
and the number of his trapping license. 

(3) On or before June first next after the 



16 State Conservation Commission. 

expiration of his license, such licensee shall re- 
port to the state conservation commission, by 
affidavit, on blanks furnished by the commission, 
the number of his license, the number and value 
of each variety of animals taken, and such other 
information as may be required on the blanks 
furnished. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.14 Hook and Line Fishing licenses. (1) 

Any person, other than nonresident males over 
the age of sixteen years, may without a license 
take, catch or kill with hook and line fish of any 
variety, subject to all other conditions, limita- 
tions and restrictions prescribed in this chapter. 
(2) Any male nonresident over the age of six- 
teen years shall have the rights of a resident to 
take, catch or kill fish of any variety with hook 
and line in outlying waters ; but not in inland wa- 
ters unless a license has been duly issued to him, 
subject to the provisions Of section 29.09 by the 
state conservation commission. Each such license 
shall be provided with three coupons each of 
which shall entitle the licensee to make one 
shipment of game fish as provided in section 
29.47, but no more. One coupon shall be attached 
to each shipment so made. (Penalty $50.00 — 
$100.00.) 

The agent of any common carrier who shall 
accept any such shipment without a coupon at- 
tached shall be guilty of a violation of this chap- 
ter and shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dol- 
lars. The fee for each such license is two dol- 
lars but such license shall not extend to catch- 
ing or killing trout of any variety. The commis- 
sion may cause such licenses to be issued 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 17 

through agents for a compensation of ten per 
cent of the license fees collected therefor; but no 
such compensation shall be paid to any of Its 
regular deputies or other employes. 

(3) No nonresident male over the age of 1€ 
years shall catch or kill any variety of trout 
with hook and line in inland waters unless a li- 
cense has been duly issued to him subject to the 
provisions of section 29.09 by the state conserva- 
tion commission. The fee for each such license 
is three dollars. 

29.15 Other Licenses. Guiding licenses, net 
and set line licenses, and clamming licenses, shall 
be issued by the state conservation, commission 
as provided in subsection (3) of section 29.22 
and sections 29.33, 29.34, 29.35, 29.36, 29.37, and 
29.38, respectively. 

29.16 Interstate License Privileges. When- 
ever and so long as the states of Minnesota or 
Iowa confer upon the licensees of this state re- 
ciprocal rights, privileges and immunities, any 
hook and line or other fishing license, or clam- 
ming license issued by such other state shall en- 
title the licensee to all the rights, privileges and 
immunities, in and upon the boundary waters 
between such state and this state, enjoyed by 
the holders of equivalent licenses issued by this 
state; subject, however, to the duties, responsibil- 
ities and liabilities imposed on its own licensees 
by the laws of this state. 



18 State Conservation Commission. 



CLOSE SEASONS 

29.18 Close Seasons for Wild Mammals and 
Birds. A close season is established for each va- 
riety of wild animals and birds listed in the fol- 
lowing table, extending during all the time in 
each year except the period embraced within the 
dates, both inclusive, set opposite the name of 
each variety or each locality, respectively, in the 
column headed "Open Season"; and, except as 
expressly provided in this chapter, no person 
shall hunt or trap any such wild mammal or bird 
at any time other than the open season therefor, 
nor in the open season in excess of the number 
designated opposite each variety or each local- 
ity, respectively, in the column headed "Bag 
Limit," nor wild birds of more than one variety 
except a mixed bag limit of twenty each day in 
the open season, but containing not more than 
the bag limit of any one variety. "Wild ducks 
and American coots or mudhens shall be deemed, 
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period embraced within the dates, both inclusive, 
set opposite the name of each variety of eacK 
locality, respectively, in the column headed "Open 
Season"; and, except as expressly provided in 
this chapter, no person shall take, capture, or 
kill fish of any such variety with hook and line 
at any time other than the open season therefor, 
nor in the open season in excess of the quantity; 
or under the minimum length for each fish, des- 
ignated opposite each variety or each locality, 
respectively, in the columns headed "Bag Limit". 
Such measurement of length shall be taken in a 
straight line from the tip of the nose to the ut- 
most end of the tail fin. 



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Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 25 

There shall be no close season for hook and 
line fishing, except for large and small mouthed 
black bass, sturgeon and trout, in any of the fol- 
lowing described waters: In the waters of the 
Mississippi river, the bays and bayous connected 
therewith and in the waters of Juneau, Lafay- 
ette, and Green counties, except in the Wisconsin 
river between Juneau and Adams in the waters 
of lakes Winnebago in Fond du Lac, Calumet 
and Winnebago counties, in Buffalo lake, Mar- 
quette county, in Puckaway lake in Marquette 
and Green Lake counties, in Lake Poygan in 
Winnebago and Waushara counties in lakes Win- 
neconne, Big and Little Butte des Morts in Winne- 
bago county, in the Fox river in Marquette, 
Green Lake, Waushara and Winnebago counties, 
in the Wolf river in Winnebago county and in 
Waupaca county as far as the city limits of New 
London, in the Rock and Crawfish rivers and 
Lake Koshkonong in Rock, Jefferson and Dodge 
counties. During the period from March 1 to 
May 31, both dates inclusive, live or dead min- 
nows shall not be used for bait in any of the 
above waters specified in Jefferson county. The 
open season in the Mississippi river for large 
and small-mouthed black bass shall be June 15 
to March 1. 

29.195 There shall be no closed season except 
from the first day of March to the succeeding 
twentieth day of May for any fish, except trout, 
in Rush lake or in the streams flowing into said 
lake, situate in Fond du Lac and Winnebago 
counties, and fish therein may be taken in any 
manner, except with explosives, during the open 
season, except trout; provided, that no person 



26 State Conservation Commission. 

shall have more than fifty pounds of such fish, 
taken from said Rush lake or said streams flow- 
ing into said lake, in his possession or under his 
control in any one day. 

29.20 Close Season for Crawfish and Frogs. 

No person shall take, catch, or kill, in any waters 
of this state, or have in possession, any crawfish 
or crab of any variety between the first day of 
March and the next succeeding first day of July; 
or any frog from March 1 to May 1 of each year; 
but nothing in this section shall prevent any per- 
son from having frogs in his possession who is 
in the business of propagating frogs, or where the 
same are used for scientific or educational pur- 
poses. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00.) 



METHODS OF HUNTING AND FISHING 

29.22 General Restrictions on Hunting. (1) 

Prohibited methods. No person shall hunt game 
with any means other than the use of a gun held 
at arm's length and discharged from the shoulder; 
or place, spread or set any net, pitfall, snare, 
spring gun, pivot gun, swivel gun, or other simi- 
lar contrivance for the purpose of catching, or 
which might catch, take or ensnare game; or use 
or have in his possession or under his control 
any ferret, rat, weasel, or guinea pig while hunt- 
ing; and no person shall carry with him in any 
vehicle, any gun or rifle unless the same is un- 
loaded, and knocked down or enclosed within a 
carrying case. No person while hunting or in 
possession of firearms shall have in possession 
or under control any light used for the purpose 
of shining deer. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 27 

i (2) Possession of ferrets. No person shall 
i have in his possession or under his control at 
! any time any ferret unless a permit therefor has 
been issued to him by the state conservation 
commission; but such permit shall not authorize 
! ! the use of any ferret for hunting game except in 
: Door county. 

1 (3) Guide licenses. No person shall engage, 
or be employed, for any compensation or reward, 
' to guide, direct, or assist any other person in 
1 hunting, trapping, or fishing unless a license 
: therefor, subject to the provisions of section 
29.09, has been duly issued to him by the state 
; conservation commission. The fee for each such 
license is one dollar. The applicant shall deliver 
to the state conservation commission an oath of 
office that he shall well and faithfully perform 
the duties of his office as a guide licensed by the 
state conservation commission to guide, direct 
and assist other persons in hunting, trapping 
and fishing, and observe and comply with all the 
requirements of chapter 29 of the statutes, and 
of his said guide license. This subsection does 
not apply to the employment of labor by, or ser- 
vices rendered to, the licensee of any net fishing 
license. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 

(4) Guides as special deputies. Each licensed 
guide may be a special deputy conservation 
warden, appointed by the commission and shall 
! execute the same oath of office and bond as re- 
quired by regularly salaried wardens. Licensed 
guides may be employed for temporary service 
as a regular deputy conservation warden, for any 
period not exceeding fifty days in any one year, 
at a compensation to be fixed by the commission. 



28T State Consebvation Commission. 

29.23 Deer Hunting. (1) Prohibited meth- 
ods. No person shall hunt deer between one 
hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, of 
the following morning; or in the water or on 
the ice of any stream, lake, or pond; or with a 
dog or dogs; or with the aid of artificial light; 
nor place any salt in any place for the purpose 
of enticing deer thereto, or construct, occupy, or 
use any elevated scaffold or other device for the 

purpose of hunting, watching for, or killing deer. 
(2) Bogs in camps. During tke period from 
November 10 to December 10, in the counties 
where there is an open season for deer, no per- 
son shall hunt any wild animal with a dog or 
dogs; nor have a dog or dogs in his possession 
or under his control in or about a hunting or 
logging camp, unless a permit therefor has been 
issued to him by the state conservation commis- 
sion. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00.) 

29.24 Fur-Bearing Animals; Methods of Tak- 
ing. (1) No person shall hunt any fisher, mar- 
ten, mink, or muskrat with the aid of any spear, 
gun, or dog, disturb or molest any raccoon den 
or tree for the purpose of capturing the rac- 
coons, or any muskrat house, beaver house or 
beaver dam; or set any trap or traps at any 
time within five hundred feet of any beaver 
house or beaver dam (except under license is- 
sued under section 29.59 (5) in Price, Rusk and 
Sawyer counties.) 

(2) The owner or occupant of any land, and 
any member of his family may without licenst 
hunt thereon rabbits at any time, and squirrels 
during the open season therefor. 

03) Except as provided in subsection (2), no 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 29 

person shall have in his possession or under his 
control, or use, for hunting rabbits, any ferret, 
snare, trap, or any device or contrivance de- 
signed or used for the purpose of driving rab- 
bits out of their holes or dens. The owner or 
occupant or any person upon written request of 
the owner or occupant of any land in the county 
of Door may use a ferret thereon for hunting rab- 
bits. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00.) 

29.25 Game Birds; Hunting. (1) Prohib- 
ited methods. No person shall hunt any game 
bird between sunset and thirty minutes before 
sunrise of the following morning; or by shooting" 
it or at it from any boat, canoe, raft, blind, con- 
trivance or device in open water, or from any 
boat or craft other than such as are propelled by 
paddle, oars, or pole or with the use of more 
than fifty decoys within, or any decoys beyond, 
two hundred feet from the blind or covering in 
which the hunter is located, or with any decoys 
left in the water unattended; or any game bird 
other than wild geese and brant with the use of 
a rifle. 

(2) Oven water defined. Open water is any 
water outside or beyond a natural growth of 
vegetation extending over the water surface, and 
of such height as to offer partial or whole con- 
cealment for the hunter. 

(3) Live decoys. The set of fifty decoys al- 
lowed for each hunter used on the water in 
hunting game birds may include not more than 
five live decoys; but each such live decoy so used 
shall be provided with a registration tag, which 
shall be issued by the state conservation com- 



30 State Conservation Commission. 

mission to any holder of a hunting license on 
payment of a fee of ten cents for each tag. 

(4) Use of dogs. No person carrying or be- 
ing in possession of- a gun shall run or use a 
dog or dogs in the field, or upon lands frequented 
by game birds or upon which game birds may 
be found, between the first day of August and 
the seventh day of September in each year. 
(Penalty $50.00— $100.00.) 

• 29.26 Prohibited Fishing Under Particular 

Conditions. No person shall take, capture, or 
kill fish of any variety, during the close season 
for trout, in streams and creeks containing 
trout; or at any time in or from any spring hole 
or artificial well connected with any of the wa- 
ters of this state; or by means of shutting or 
drawing off water for that purpose; nor shall 
any person take, capture or kill fish within two 
hundred feet of any fishway, lock or dam other- 
wise than with a hook and line. No fish of any 
variety shall be taken in any manner within 
five hundred feet below any fishway, lock or 
dam in the counties of Burnett, Washburn, Saw- 
yer, Oneida, Florence, Vilas, Iron, Ashland, Bay- 
field, Douglas, and north of townships number 
35 in Price and Forest counties, and within 
three hundred feet above and five hundred feet 
below the day at Kilbourn on the Wisconsin 
river. No person shall take or catch fish from a 
boat or float in Flites pond on the Big Rush 
O'Cree creek in the town of Plainfield, Waushara 
county. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 

29.27 Prohibited Methods of Fishing. (1) 

Hook and line fishing; spearing. No person 
shall take, catch, kill, or fish for fish of any va- 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 31 

riety with more than five lines with one hook te 
a line or with more than three lines with two 
hooks to a line or with any line equipped with 
more than two hooks or one trolling spoon or 
artificial hait, or with more than such number of 
lines and hooks left in the water unattended, 
unless a license for a set line shall be procured 
therefor; or any game fish by any means other 
than angling or trolling, except as provided in 
subsection (2) of section 29.28 and section 
29.30; nor shall any person use a spear for the 
purpose of taking, catching or killing any rough 
fish at any time in nonnavigable waters contain- 
ing trout, or during the close season for trout 
in navigable waters containing trout, or at any 
time in Lake Mason, commonly known as Briggs- 
ville pond, or the inlet, outlet or marshes adja- 
cent to the same, or in Pine lake, in the town 
of Hancock, and' Fish lake, in the t«wns of Han- 
cock and Deerfield, Waushara county, or in the 
Chain of Lakes, Mirror or Shadow lakes, in the 
towns of Farmington, Dayton, Waupaca, and the 
city of Waupaca, Waupaca county, or in Devil's 
lake, Sauk county, or in the waters known as 
Koenig's millpond, situated in sections seven, 
eight, seventeen and eighteen of township nine 
north, of range six east, town of Prairie du Sac, 
or in the nighttime in any other inland waters. 
[(Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(2) Snag lines. No person shall set, place, 
:use, have, or control any snag line or snag pole, 
meaning any line, cable, or pole to which a num- 
ber of fishhooks or clusters of fishhooks of any 
kind or description are attached, and designated 
to be placed in or drawn through the water for 
the purpose of catching or drawing such hooks 



92 State Conservation Commission. 

Into the body of fish. Violations of this subsec- 
tion shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
one hundred nor more than two- hundred dollars, 
or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than six months nor more than nine months,* or 
by both such fine and imprisonment. 

- 29.28 Ice Fishing. (1) No person shall 
take, catch, or kill fish of any variety through 
the ice on Silver lake, situated within the city 
limits of Portage, and Pardeeville millpond in 
the town of Wyocena, Columbia county; Pine 
lake, town of Hancock, and Fish lake, towns of 
Hancock and Deerfield, Pleasant lake in the 
town of Coloma, Waushara county, and in the 
town of Springfield, Marquette county; Lake 
Nocquebay in Marinette county; Lake Mason, 
commonly known as Briggsville pond, in the 
counties of Adams and Marquette; Shell lake, 
Washburn county; Chain of Lakes in townships 
thirty-seven and thirty-eight north, of range 
twelve west, in Washburn county; Big Slough 
in Lewiston, Columbia county; Devil's lake and 
Mears lake and tributary streams; the waters 
known as Koenig's millpond, in sections seven, 
eight, seventeen and eighteen of township nine 
north, of range six east, town of Prairie du Sac, 
and Mirror lake, in Sauk county; Twin lakes, in 
the town of Lincoln, Polk county; any lake in 
the counties «,f Langlade, except in Post Lake, 
Portage, Marquette, except in Buffalo lake, and 
Snawano. The bag limit for Cisco in any lake 
in Waukesha county shall be twenty-five each 
day, except in Pine lake where there shall be no 
bai limit. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(2) Spears may be used for spearing pickerel 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 33 

through the ice of the Mississippi river, Lake 
Pepin, Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, hays, bay- 
ous and sloughs tributary thereto and connected 
therewith. 

(3) Fish shanties or shelters may be used on 
the ice of the Mississippi river, Lake Geneva in 
Walworth county, Lakes Winnebago, Winne- 
conne, Big and Little Butte des Morts and Poy- 
gan; Beaver Dam lake; the Fox river in Brown 
county; the Oconto river within the limits of 
the city of Oconto; all lakes in Waukesha coun- 
ty, except Phantom and Howitt's lakes; and 
where there is not less than fifty feet of water 
in Big Green lake. Wind shields may be used 
on the ice of Mendota, Monona, Waubesa and 
Kegonsa lakes in Dane county. 

29.29 Noxious Substances. (1) Explosives; 
stupefactives. No person shall take, capture or 
kill fish of any variety in any waters of this state 
by means of dynamite or other explosives or 
poisonous or stupefying substances; or place in 
any waters of this state explosives which might 
cause the destruction of fish, except for the pur- 
pose of raising dead bodies whenever ordered 
by the public authorities, or for the purpose of 
clearing a channel or breaking a log jam; or 
have in his possession or under his control, upon 
any inland waters, any dynamite or other ex- 
plosives for the purpose of taking, catching or 
killing fish. Violations of this subsection shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
Imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
nine months nor more than one year, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment. 



34 State Conservation - Commission. 

(2) Medicated bait. No person shall use, 
set, lay or prepare in any of the waters of this 
state any lime, poison, medicated bait, fish ber- 
ries, or any other substance deleterious to fish 
life or which might attract fish in unusual num- 
bers; but the feeding of cisco with oatmeal for 
the purpose of catching such fish with hook and 

line through the ice is lawful. 

(3) Deleterious substances. No person shall 
cast, deposit, or throw overboard from any boat, 
vessel or other craft into any waters within the 
jurisdiction of the state, or deposit or leave upon 
the ice thereof until it melts, any fish offal; or 
throw or deposit, or permit to be thrown or de- 
posited, into any waters within the jurisdiction 
of the state any lime, tanbark, ship ballast, 
stone, sand slabs, decayed wood, sawdust, saw- 
mill refuse, planing mill shavings, or any acids 
or chemicals or waste or refuse arising from the 
manufacture of any article of commerce, or any 
other substance deleterious to fish life other 
than authorized drainage and sewage from mu- 
nicipalities. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 



FISHING WITH NETS AND SET LINES 

29.30 Fishing with Nets and Set Lines. ( 1 ) 

License required. Nets and set lines may be 
used for the purpose of taking, catching, or kill- 
ing rough fish and game fish, subject to the con- 
ditions, limitations and restrictions prescribed 
in this chapter; but no person shall set, place or 
use in any waters of this state any net, trap, 
snare, set hook, or set line, which is intended 
to or might take, catch or kill fish of any va- 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 35 

riety, other than a landing net, dip net, minnow 
seine or minnow dip net, unless a license there- 
for has been duly issued to such person. (Pen- 
alty §50.00— $100.00. Penalty use of gill nets 
$200.00— $500.00. Penalty use of any net for 
trout $200.00— $500.00.) 

(2) Restrictions on the use of licensed nets 
and set lines. The use of licensed nets and set 
lines is subject, further, to the following condi 
tions: 

(a) No apron or other device shall be used 
in any pound net, which might prevent the 
escape of small fish through the meshes of the 
net when it is set or raised. 

(b) No net of any kind shall be set so as to 
shut off more than one-half of any channel or 
passageway of any stream, or set within one 
thousand feet of 'any other net in said stream. 

(c) No licensee shall join his net to that of 
any other licensee. 

(d) At each end of every licensed net or set 
line, when set in any waters, shall be placed 
and maintained a white flag of not less than six- 
teen inches square, with the upper end of the 
staff extending at least two feet above the water, 
and numbered with figures at least three inches 
in height corresponding with the number of the 
license authorizing the use of such net or set 
line. 

(e) The licensees of licensed net or set lines- 
used in outlying waters shall, on their boats, 
carry the state conservation commission, or its 
deputies, to and from their nets or set lines when 
set and, on demand of such officer, shall raise the 
same for his inspection; and any such officer is 
authorized, in the presence or absence of the* li- 



86 State Conservation Commission. 

censee, at any time, to raise any set line in any 
waters, with, as little damage as may be, for in- 
spection. If any such licensee shall refuse to 
carry any such, officer as herein provided his li- 
cense shall be revoked and cancelled. 

(f) No licensed net shall be drawn or lifted 
at any time between one hour after sunset and 
sunrise of the following morning, in any waters 
other than Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green 
Bay, the Fox River beyond a distance of 500 
feet below the dam at De Pere, and Sturgeon 
Bay. 

(g) No fish of any kind shall be taken or re- 
tained in any net, when drawn or lifted, other 
than the kind or kinds expressly authorized to be 
taken or retained in such net, as provided in 
this chapter; and except as provided in para- 
graph (h) any such other kind or kinds of fish 
coming into or taken in such nets shall be im- 
mediately returned, carefully and with as little 
injury as possible, to the waters from which they 
were taken. 

(h) All rough fish taken in net in inland wa- 
ter shall be brought to shore and buried, sold, 
or otherwise lawfully disposed of; but none of 
such fish shall be returned to any waters of this 
state. 

(i) Whenever the size of mesh of any net is 
specified in this chapter it shall be the size of 
such mesh, stretch measure, at the time of its 
use. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 

29.31 Dip Nets in Inland Waters. (1) No 

person shall set, use or operate any dip net in 
any of the inland waters of the state for taking, 
catching or killing of any variety of fish other 
than as specified in this section. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 37 

(2) Dip nets not exceeding eight feet in diam- 
eter with meshes of not less than three inches 
may be used for taking, catching or killing rough 
fish in the Pond du Lac river within three miles 
of its mouth; in Silver creek in the town of 
Ripon, Fond du Lac county, from the old Arcade 
dam to the Green Lake county line; in the Big 
Wolf river; in Butternut lake, Ashland and Price 
counties; in the Manitowoc river from its mouth 
up to Ripp's bridge in the town of Rockland, 
Manitowoc county, and in all the streams and 
rivers flowing into Lake Michigan in that part 
of such streams beginning at the mouth and ex- 
tending ten miles inland. (Penalty $50.00 — 
$100.00.) 

29.32 Minnow Nets. (1) Use limited. No 
person shall set, use or operate any minnow 
seine or minnow dip net in any of the waters of 
this state for taking, catching or killing fish of 
any variety, other than as specified in this sec- 
tion. 

(2) Inland waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
ceeding forty feet in length and five feet in depth, 
and minnow dip nets not exceeding six feet in 
diameter may be used in all inland waters for 
taking, catching or killing rough fish minnows 
for bait only; but not in any such waters, creeks, 
or streams inhabited by trout or in which trout 
may have been planted, or in Turtle creek in 
Walworth and Rock counties, unless supervised 
by the state conservation commission or its 
deputies. 

(3) Outlying waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
ceeding one hundred feet in length and five feet 
in depth and minnow dip nets not exceeding six 



38 State Conservation Commission. 

feet in diameter may be used in Lake Superior, 
Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, and 
the Fox river below the dam at De Pere, for tak- 
ing, catching, or killing rough fish minnows for 
bait only. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00) 

29.33 Net and Set Hook Fishing in Outlying 

Waters. (1) License authorized. Net or set 
hook licenses which shall authorize the use of 
one or more of the kinds of nets or lines of set 
hooks named in this section, as limited herein, 
for the taking, catching, or killing of fish in the 
waters of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green 
Bay, Sturgeon Bay, and the Fox river below the 
dam at De Pere, shall be issued, subject to the 
provisions of section 29.09, by the state conserva- 
tion commission to any person duly applying 
therefor. 

(2) Form of license. In addition to the facts 
required by section 29.09, each application for 
such license, and the license issued thereon, shall 
state the name and kind of vessel and whether 
with or without a steam lifter, and the number 
and kind of nets or set hooks to be covered by 
the license applied for. 

(3) License period and fees. Each such li- 
cense shall be effective only from the first day of 
January until the thirty-first day of December 
of the same year; and the fee for each license 
issued to any resident of this state is two dollars 
for a gill net or nets; five dollars for each seine; 
two dollars for each pound net and leader; five 
dollars for trap net or nets, fyke net or nets, 
drop net or nets, with leaders; and one dollar 
for each trammel net, or for set hooks. The fee 
for each license issued to any nonresident is the 






Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 3$ 

same as the resident fee, except for gill nets 
operated in conjunction with or from any ves- 
sel; and for gill nets so operated, two dollars for 
any vessel propelled by oars, paddle, or pole, fifty 
dollars for any other vessel propelled otherwise 
than by steam, one hundred dollars for any steam 
vessel without a steam lifter, and two hundred 
dollars for any steam vessel with a steam lifter. 

(4) Metal tags. No such licensed net or set 
hooks shall be used until the same are equipped 
with metal tags stamped to designate the kind 
of net or set hooks and number of the license 
covering the same. One such tag shall be se- 
curely fastened to each two thousand lineal feet, 
or fraction thereof, of gill net or set hooks; one 
to each pound net; one to each five hundred 
lineal feet, or fraction thereof, of seine; and one, 
to each fyke, drop, trap, submarine or trammel 
net. Such tags shyi be furnished by the state 
conservation commission to the licensee at the 
time of issuing the license, on payment of a fee 
of twenty : five cents for each tag, except that 
tags for gill nets shall be fifty cents. 

(5) Reserve waters. - The following waters 
are reserve waters, and no nets of any kind shall 
be set therein, namely: In Lake Superior within 
one-fourth mile from the entry of the channel 
between Wisconsin Point and Minnesota Point, 
or from any harbor, pier or breakwater, or from 
the mouth of any stream flowing into Lake Su- 
perior, or from the shore line of Douglas county, 
or within two miles from the shoreline of 
Chequamegon Bay from the commercial dock in 
the city of Washburn, Bayfield county, to the 
state line of Michigan. In Lake Michigan and 
Green Bay within one-fourth mile of any harbor, 



40 (State Conservation Commission. 

pier or breakwater, or from the mouth of any 
stream flowing into Lake Michigan or Green Bay, 
or within one mile from any harbor, pier or 
breakwater in Milwaukee county, or within one 
mile from the shore line of Milwaukee county. 
In the waters of Lake Michigan or Green Bay 
no gill net shall be set within one-fourth mile 
from the shore line of Door county and no net 
of any kind shall be used in the following bays 
or harbors in Door county, namely: Sturgeon 
Bay, Little Sturgeon Bay, Fish Creek Harbor, 
Eagle Harbor, Bailey's Harbor, Mud Bay, North 
Bay, Rowley's Bay, and Washington Harbor and 
Detroit Harbor in Washington Island. 

(6) Close seasons. For the purpose of this 
subsection the waters of Green Bay shall be con- 
sidered to include all that area south of a line 
drawn between Limekiln Bluff in Door county 
and the mouth of the Menominee river in Mari- 
nette county, and including The Fox river as far 
as the dam at De Pere, and all the waters of 
Green Bay north of the above described line 
shall be subject to the law covering Lake Mich- 
igan, 

(a) In Green Bay there .shall be a close sea- 
son on lake trout and whitefish from October 21 
to November 21. A close season for pike and 
pickerel from March 10 to May 1. A close sea- 
son for all varieties- of fish, except lake trout and 
whitefish from the first day of April to the fif- 
teenth day of May, inclusive. 

(b) In Lake Michigan there shall be a close 
season on Lake trout and whitefish from October 
21 to November 21. 

(c) In Lake Superior there shall be a close 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 41 

season for lake trout and whitefish from October 
1 to November 1. 

(7) Prohibited nets. Minnow nets. For the 
purpose of this subsection the waters of Green 
Bay shall be considered to include all that area 
south of a line drawn between Limekiln Bluff 
in Door county and the mouth of the Menominee 
river in Marinette county and including the Fox 
river as far as the dam at De Pere. All the wa- 
ters of Green Bay north of the above described 
line shall be subject to the law covering Lake 
Michigan. 

(a) In Green Bay nets with a mesh not less 
than four inches may be used for the taking of 
lake trout and whitefish. Gill nets with a mesh 
not less than two and three-eighths inches may 
be used for taking herring, chub, bluefin, or 
perch. Seines with a mesh of not less than three 
inches and pound nets with a mesh of not more 
than two inches in the pound may be used. No 
nets of any kind shall be set for the purpose of 
catching any variety of fish during the close sea- 
son for such fish and from the first day of April 
to the fifteenth day of May, inclusive, except gill 
nets with mesh of not less than four inches for 
the purpose of taking lake trout or whitefish, no 
nets of any kind shall be set in the waters of 
Green Bay. During the period from January 1 
to March 10 gill nets with a mesh of two and 
one-eighth inches may be used under the ice for 
the purpose of catching herring. No perch shall 
be caught or taken from the waters of Green Bay 
proper between April 1 and May 15 in each year. 

(b) In Lake Superior gill nets with a mesh 
of not less than four inches may be used for the 
purpose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill 



42 State Conservation Commission. 

nets with a mesh of not less than two and three- 
eighths inches may be used during the months of 
November and December for the purpose of tak- 
ing herring. Seines with a mesh of not less than 
three inches and pound nets with a mesh of not 
more than two inches in the pound may be used. 
No nets of any kind shall be set or used for the 
purpose of taking any variety of fish during the 
close season for such fish. 

(c) In Lake Michigan gill nets with a mesh 
of not less than four inches may be used for the 
purpose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill 
nets with a mesh of not less than two and one- 
half inches may be used for the purpose of tak- 
ing herring, chub, bluefin and perch. Seines 
with a mesh of not less than three inches and 
pound nets with a mesh of not more than two 
inches in the pound may be used. No nets of 
any kind shall be set for the purpose of taking 
any variety of fish during the close season for 
such fish. 

(d) In Green Bay and Lake Michigan min- 
now seines fifty feet long and five feet deep may 
be used for taking rough fish minnows for bait. 
Bach set-hook licensee may use not more than 
two thousand feet of gill net with a mesh of one 
and three-eighths inches, except in reserve wa- 
ters for the purpose of taking bloaters for bait. 
The provisions of subdivision (d) of subsection 
(7) of section 29.33, shall not take effect until 
January 1, 1918. 

(e) All nets with a mesh other than such as 
above specified and all nets used in violation of 
this chapter are contraband nets and shall be 
seized and confiscated whenever found in the 
water or on any vessel, dock or reel. Any such 



Statutes Relating to "Wild Animals. 43 

contraband nets so found shall be deemed suffi- 
cient evidence of the use of such nets by the 
owner thereof. 

(8) Fish returned to waters. All black bass, 
muskellunge, sturgeon, rainbow trout, brook 
trout, salmon or steelhead trout, and all under- 
sized lake trout and whitefish taken in any 
pound, fyke or trap net shall be immediately re- 
turned alive and without avoidable injury to the 
waters from which taken. 

(9) Under size fish. No licensee of any net or 
set hooks shall transport or cause to be trans- 
ported, fish of any of the varieties mentioned in 
this subsection of a length less than that speci- 
fied for each variety; and such measurement of 
length shall be taken in a straight line from the 
tip of the nose to the utmost end of the tail fin, 
except that the measurement of dressed fish be 
of the length of the carcass, namely: 

(These size limits cover Green Bay, Lake 
Michigan and Lake Superior.) 

Lake trout 12 inches 

Whitefish 13 

Suckers 10 

Carp .__ 12 

Suckers with head and tail off 7 " 

Perch 7 

Perch with head and tail off 4 " 

Pike 13 " 

Pike with head and tail off 10 " 

Pickerel 16 ". 

Pickerel with head and tail off 11 " 

Catfish + 15 

Catfish with head off . 13 

Any other variety 7 " 

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44 State Conservation Commissi©*. 

Any licensee taking such undersiz© fish shall, 
except as provided in subsection (8), bring 
them to shore and immediately notify the state 
conservation commission or its deputy; and the 
latter shall take possession of such fish and de- 
liver them to some state, county, or charitable 
-institution, or otherwise dispose of the same. 

(10) Possession, sale and transportation. 
No such licensee and no other person shall trans- 
port or cause to be transported, or deliver or re- 
ceive or offer to deliver or receive for transpor- 
tation or have in possession or under control 
any fish of the varieties mentioned in subsection 
(9) of a length less than that specified therein 
for each variety, respectively, whether lawfully 
or unlawfully taken within or without the state. 
Whenever such undersize fish are received by or 
offered to any person for transportation in the 
course of business, such person shall forthwith 
notify the state conservation commission, or its 
deputy, stating full particulars. 

(11) Penalty. Any violation of subsections 
(1), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) of section 
29.33 shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
three hundred dollars nor more than five hun- 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
jail for not less than six months nor more than 
nine months, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment. 

(12) Reports. On or before January 10 fol- 
lowing the expiration of his license, each such 
licensee shall report to the state conservation 
commission in writing, on blanks furnished by 
the said commission, the number of his license, 
the kind, number and size of nets, the length of 
lines of set hooks used, number of lineal feet of 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 45 

gill nets, the number of pounds and value of each 
variety of fish caught; and such other informa- 
tion as may be required on the blanks furnished. 
Such report shall be subscribed to before a no- 
tary public or a justice of the peace. 

29.34 Net Licenses; Mississippi River Wa- 
ters. (1) License authorized. Net licenses 
which shall authorize the use of nets, as limited 
herein, during the period of time extending from 
the fifteenth day of June to the next succeeding 
fifteenth day of April, except that buffalo nets 
having meshes not smaller than four and one- 
half inches, stretch measure, to be used for tak- 
ing rough fish only, may be used in the running 
waters of the Mississippi river at all times of 
the year, for taking, catching, or killing fish in 
the waters of the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin, 
and Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous, 
and sloughs tributary thereto and connected 
therewith, shall be issued subject to the provi- 
sions of section 29.09 by the state conservation 
commission to any resident of the state duly ap- 
plying therefor. 

(2) Bond. Before any such license is issued, 
the applicant shall execute and deliver to the 
state conservation commission a bond running to 
the state of Wisconsin, in the sum of two hun- 
dred dollars, with two sureties, and conditioned 
that if the applicant shall well and faithfully ob- 
serve and comply with all the provisions of this 
chapter, said obligation to be null and void, oth- 
erwise to remain in full force. Each said surety 
shall be worth and qualify in at least the sum of 
two hundred dollars, over and above all his 



46 State Conservation Commission. 

debts and liabilities, in property within this 
state not exempt from sale on execution. 

(3) License period; nets specified. Each 
such license shall expire on the fifteenth day of 
April next succeeding the date of its issue, and 
shall authorize the use of one or more of the fol- 
lowing nets only: Seines not exceeding a total 
length of four thousand feet, and having meshes 
of not less than five inches on the wings or four 
inches in the center of the pot, the pot not ex- 
ceeding one hundred and fifty feet in length; 
gill nets having meshes of not less than seven 
inches; pound or hoop nets having meshes of 
not less than six inches in the leaders, five inches 
in the hearts, or three inches in the hoops; and 
bait nets to be used without leads, having meshes 
of not less than three inches, and not more than 
a four-foot front. 

(4) License fees. The fee for each such li- 
cense is as follows: For seines, one dollar per 
hundred for the first five hundred lineal feet, 
two dollars per hundred for the second five hun- 
dred lineal feet, three dollars per hundred for 
the third five hundred lineal feet, four dollars 
per hundred for the fourth five hundred lineal 
feet, five dollars per hundred for the fifth five 
hundred lineal feet, and six dollars for each 
one hundred lineal feet over twenty-five hundred; 
for gill nets, five dollars for the first two thou- 
sand lineal feet, and five dollars for each addi- 
tional one thousand lineal feet; for pound or 
hoop nets, five dollars for each seven hundred 
lineal feet of leader and one pound, and five dol- 
lars for each additional pound, for bait nets, one 
dollar each; for buffalo nets, five dollars each. 



/ Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 47 

/ (<5) Metal tags. No such licensed net shall 
be used until the same is equipped with metal 
tags stamped to designate the kind of net and 
number of the license covering the same. One 
such tag shall be securely fastened to each five 
hundred lineal feet, or fraction thereof, of seine; 
one to each two thousand lineal feet, or fraction 
thereof, of gill net; and one to each fyke, hoop, 
o** bait net. Such tags shall be furnished by 
the state conservation commission to the licensee 
at the time of issuing the license, on payment of 
a fee of twenty-five cents for each tag. 

(6) Protected fish. No such licensed net 
shall be. used for taking, catching, or killing any 
of the following named fish: catfish of any va- 
riety under fifteen inches in length in the rough, 
or twelve inches dressed with the head detached; 
pike of any variety, bass of any variety, crappies, 
sunfish, pickerel, rock sturgeon, or perch. 

(7) Reserve waters. No such licensed net 
shall be used for taking, catching, or killing fish 
of any kind in any of the following named wa- 
ters: Rice lake, French lake, Mud lake, Round 
lake, Long lake, French slough, Spring creek, 
Spring slough, and Black river in La Crosse 
county; Courtois pond, Pickerel, Spring, Nigger 
and Frenchtown sloughs and Gordon bay, in 
Crawford county; the De Soto bay, Long slough, 
T slough, Green lake, Pick's lake and all sloughs, 
lakes and bayous from De Soto bay to the main 
channel of the Mississippi river and as far north 
as Battle Bar in Vernon county; Cassville 
sloughs from Glen Haven to Cassville; Daley 
lake, Wyalusing bay and Glen lake between 
Wyalusing and the Burlington railway bridge, 
Plondke and Harris sloughs, Crawford lake, 



48 State Conservation Commission. 

i- 

Ferry lake, and Bertram lake, all in Grant coui* 

ty; Trention lake, Trention slough, Mud lake 
and Mero slough in Pierce; and Beef slough in 
Buffalo county; and the Mississippi river within 
fifteen hundred feet of the mouth of the Chip- 
pewa river, except that during the period from 
September 2 to January 1 of each year not to 
exceed ten pound, not to exceed four feet, fyke 
or hoop nets may be used by each licensee pro- 
viding such fishing is done under the supervision 
of the conservation commission or one of its 
deputies, the licensee to pay for such supervision 
service at not to exceed four dollars per day. 

(8) Temporary ponds; shipments. Each 
such licensee may construct temporary fish ponds 
and keep his fish therein until they can be mar- 
keted; and a card shall be attached to each 
shipment thereof, on which shall be written 
"Shipped under section 29.34," the signature of 
the licensee, and the number of his license. 

(9) Reports. Each such licensee shall keep 
a strict record and account as to each variety of 
fish and the number of pounds thereof taken by 
him in such licensed nets; and shall report 
thereon to the state conservation commission on 
or before the fifteenth day of May covering his 
operations during the preceding year. (Penalty 
$50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.35 Net Licenses; Whitefish and Cisco in 
Inland lakes. (1) Net licenses which shall au- 
thorize the use of not exceeding one hundred 
lineal feet of gill net, with meshes not less than 
two and three-fourths inches, or dip nets with a 
diameter of not more than eight feet and with 
meshes not less than one and one-half inches, 



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for taking, catching or killing whitefish in any 
of the inland waters of the state containing 
whitefish, or not exceeding one hundred lineal 
feet of gill net, with meshes not less than two 
inches, for the purpose of catching ciscos in any 
of the inland waters of the state containing cisco 
may be issued by the state conservation commis- 
sion, subject to the provisions of section 29.09, 
to any resident of the state duly applying there- 
for. Such licenses may also be issued by the 
commission in its discretion, for the catching of 
whitefish or ciscos, respectively, in any other 
inland waters. The fee for each such license is 
fifty cents. 

(2) Each such license shall be limited to 
such period of twenty days as shall be fixed by 
the state conservation commission, and no such 
whitefish licensee shall have in his possession or 
under his control at any time more than one 
hundred pounds of whitefish. 

(3) No such licensed net shall be used until 
the same is equipped with a metal tag, stamped 
to designate the kind of net and number of the 
license covering the same, to be securely fas- 
tened to each net. Such tag shall be furnished 
by the commission at the time of issuing the 
license. Spears may be used in the waters of 
Vilas county during the period from October 15 
to November 15 for the purpose of spearing 
Cisco. (Penalty $50.00 to $100.00.) 

29.36 Net licenses; rough fish in Winnebago 
waters. (1) The state conservation commis- 
sion may upon application therefor issue to any 
person a license to use and operate a seine, fyke, 
pound net, trap net, hoop net or a turtle net in 



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Lakes Winnebago, Winneconne, Poygan, Butte 
des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, Puckaway, and 
the Fox and Wolf Rivers, for the purpose of 
taking and catching rough fish between the fif- 
teenth day of June of each year and the next 
succeeding first day of April, and in Lake Kosh- 
konong by the use of fyke, hoop and pound nets 
only, from November first to April first. The li- 
cense fee for each pound net or trap net shall be 
twenty-five dollars. All of the following va- 
rieties of rough fish as defined by subsection (3) 
of section 29.01 so caught shall be the property 
of the licensee, i. e., pickerel, buffalo fish, carp, 
eelpout, dogfish, sheepshead, billfish, red horse, 
suckers, lawyers, lizards, bullheads, sunfish, 
crappies and catfish. All such fishing is to be 
done under the supervision of the conservation 
commission or one of its wardens; but no per- 
son, firm or corporation shall use more than ten 
fyke or hoop nets or more than two pound nets. 
All pickerel caught in nets in the waters of the 
Wolf river and Lake Poygan, Winneconne, and 
Lake Koshkonong shall be returned to the wa- 
ters alive. 

(2) The fee for each such license is as fol- 
lows: For a seine of five hundred feet and not 
over one thousand feet, twenty-five dollars; of 
one thousand feet or over, fifty dollars each; for 
seines of less than five hundred feet, or fyke, 
hoop or turtle nets, five dollars each. No nets 
shall be used until the same are equipped with 
metal tags, stamped to designate the kind of net 
and numbered to correspond with the number of 
the license authorizing the operation of said net 
or nets, one such metal tag to be securely fas- 
tened to each net. Such metal tags shall be 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 51 

furnished to the licensee by the state conserva- 
tion commission on the payment of a fee of 
twenty-five cents for each tag. Any licensee oper- 
ating a seine, seines, fyke or hoop net, under the 
provision's of this section, shall do so under the 
direction and personal supervision of the state 
conservation commission or one of its deputies, 
hut not otherwise; but the state conservation 
commission may order one deputy to direct and 
supervise the operation of a seine, seines, fyke 
or hoop nets by more than one licensee. 

03) All licenses under the provisions of this 
section shall be issued upon the express condi- 
tion that each licensee operating a seine or seines 
shall pay to the state conservation commission 
one-half cent per pound for all fish taken under 
such license and which are packed ready to be 
shipped or otherwise disposed of. Any and all 
moneys so received by the commission shall be 
paid into the state treasury. 

(4) Any licensee shall be allowed to ship or 
transport to any place he desires any fish taken 
under the provisions of this section, except those 
required to be immediately returned to the wa- 
ters. A card shall be attached to the package or 
box In which the same shall be shipped, on which 
shall be written "Shipped under section 29.36," 
the signature of the licensee, and the number of 
his license. 

(5) Each such licensee may construct tempo- 
rary fish ponds and keep his fish therein until 
they can be marketed. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00.) 

29.37 Set Line Licenses ; Inland Waters. ( 1 ) 

Set line licenses which shall authorize the use of 
one set line only, with not exceeding twenty-five 



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hooks, for taking, catching or killing fish, shall 
be issued, subject to the provisions of section 
29.09, by the county clerk of the county border- 
ing on the waters where such set lines are in- 
tended and permitted to be used, to any person 
duly applying therefor. 

(2) Each such license shall be limited to the 
period of time extending from the twenty-ninth 
day of May to the next succeeding fifteenth day 
of February. The fee for each such license is 
one dollar. 

(3) No such licensed set line shall be used 
until the same is equipped with a metal tag, 
stamped to designate the number of the license 
covering the same, which shall be securely 
fastened to one end of the set line. Such tag 
shall be furnished by the state conservation com- 
mission to the county clerk, and by the latter to 
the licensee at the time of issuing the license, 
on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents. All 
fees received by the county clerks for such metal 
tags shall be returned and reported in the same 
manner as are license fees, as prescribed in sec- 
tion 29.09, but without deduction. 

(4) Such licensed set lines may be used only 
in the following waters: Big Wolf river in "Wau- 
paca and Outagamie counties; Lake Winnebago, 
Lake Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, 
Lake Winneconne, Lake Poygan, Lake Pucka- 
way, and the river connecting said lakes, Fox 
river, except below the dam at De Pere; Wiscon- 
sin river from the north line of Sauk county to 
its mouth; Black river from the north line of 
Jackson county to its mouth; the Chippewa river 
from its mouth to the dam at Jim Falls, Chip- 
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Marinette county; the Pecatonica river in Green 
county; and the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin 
and Lake St. Croix. 

(5) In the Big Wolf river in Waupaca and 
Winnebago counties; in the iFox river in Winne- 
bago county and in Outagamie county as far as 
the dam at De Pere; in Lake Winnebago, Lake 
Winneconne, Lake Butte des Morts, Little Butte 
drs Morts, Lake Poygan, three hundred hooks 
may be used but in such waters no frog, minnow 
or live bait shall be used. No licensed set line 
shall be equipped with any hooks smaller than 
5/0. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00.) 

(6) In the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin and 
Lake St. Croix, and Lake Winnebago not to ex- 
ceed twenty lines with not to exceed one hundred 
hooks on each line may be used by each licensee, 
but no frog, minnow or live bait shall be used. 
Each such line shall be equipped with a metal 
tag Issued in the same manner and at the same 
fee as provided in subsection (3). The license 
fee for each such line shall be one dollar. (Pen- 
alty $50.00-$100.00.) 



CLAMMING 

29.38 Clams and mussels. (1) Mussels, not 
less than one and three-fourths inches in greatest 
dimensions, including the pearly fresh water mugi 
sel or clam, or Naiad and the shells thereof, may 
be taken and possessed in any quantity at any 
time, in the manner hereinafter described, in any 
of the waters of this state except those duly 
closed by the conservation commission, provided 
a license so to do shall first be obtained from the 



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conservation commission. Such, mussels may be 
bought, sold or transported at any time. 

(2) The conservation commission may, when 
in its judgment the conservation of the mussel 
resources of the state requires it, prescribe areas 
from which mussels may not be taken for a 
specified period or not to exceed five years, such 
closed areas not to exceed over one-half the mus- 
sel producing waters of the state at the same 
time. All orders of the conservation commis- 
sion prescribing such closed areas shall be pub- 
lished once in a newspaper qualified to publish 
legal notices within each county having waters 
within its boundaries affected by such orders, 
and shall take effect at the time fixed therein, 
but not earlier than thirty days after publica- 
tion. The conservation commission may, when 
in its judgment conditions warrant it, vacate, 
modify or extend any such order. No mussels 
shall be taken from waters included in any area 
so closed by the conservation commission. 

(3) iSuch license shall be procured from the 
conservation commission and may be issued to a 
resident or nonresident. It shall be in such 
form as the commission may determine, but shall 
state what waters have been closed by the ac- 
tion of the conservation commission to the tak- 
ing of mussels, and whether the licensee is a 
resident of this state. The applicant shall pay 
to the conservation commission as a license fee, 
if a resident, the sum of five dollars, and if not 
a resident, the sum of fifty dollars. All licenses 
shall expire on the thirty-first day of December 
following. Licensees, when taking mussels, shall 
exhibit their licenses to any conservation warden 
upon his request. 



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(4) Not more than one boat or rig may be 
used for taking mussels. An additional boat for 
towing may be used when no mussel taking ap- 
paratus is attached thereto. Not more than four 
crowfoot bars, or bars having hooks attached 
thereto adapted for the taking of mussels, shall 
be had in possession by a licensee while taking 
mussels at any one time, and not more than two 
of such crowfoot bars shall be placed in the wa- 
ter by a licensee while taking mussels, at any 
one time. No crowfoot bar of more than twenty 
feet in length shall be used. Pitchforks may be 
used in gathering clam shells. Undersized mus- 
sels, except pigtoes, shall be returned to the wa- 
ter without injury. No person shall take, catch or 
kill any mussels in any of the waters of this state 
at any time with the use of a dredge or by the 
use of any device except a crowfoot bar. 

(5) Written reports shall be made to the 
conservation commission on blanks prepared by 
it on or before December thirty-first, by each 
person to whom a license to take mussels has 
been issued, stating the total weight of mussels 
taken under authority of such license, the names 
and locations of the waters from which such 
mussels were taken, and the total amount re- 
ceived for the mussels sold. 

(6) Persons duly authorized by the state of 
Minnesota to take mussels from waters forming 
a common boundary between Wisconsin and 
Minnesota may take mussels from that portion 
of said waters within the jurisdiction of Wis- 
consin and not closed by action of the conserva- 
tion commission, without having first procured 
a license therefor from the state of Wisconsin, 



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provided that the laws of Minnesota extend a 
similar privilege to persons licensed by Wiscon- 
sin to take mussels. 

(7) There shall be a closed season for clams 
in all inland waters of the state, not including 
boundary waters, extending from March first to 
May twenty-ninth, in each year. 



POSSESSION OF GAME 

29.39 Possession During Close Season, or in 

Excess of Bag limit. No person shall have in 
his possession or under his control, or have in 
storage or retention or as common carrier for 
any one person, any game, game fish, or other 
wild animal or carcass or part thereof, during 
the close season therefor, or in excess of the bag 
limit for one day or below the minimum size 
thereof at any one time during the open season, 
whether lawfully or unlawfully taken within or 
without the state. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 

29.40 Possession of Deer; Heads and Skins. 

(1) Deer tags. Any person having lawfully 
killed a deer shall immediately attach and leave 
attached to the carcass, or part thereof, the deer 
tag corresponding to his license; and no person 
shall have in his possession or under his control, 
or have in storage or as a common carrier, any 
such carcass, or part thereof, without such tag 
attached. 

(2) Home consumption. Any person residing 
in this state having lawfully killed a deer, may 
have in his possession and consume the meat 
thereof in his own family at any time, but must 
leave the tag attached thereto. 



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(3) Heads and skins. The head and skin of 
any deer lawfully killed, when severed from the 
rest of the carcass, are not subject to the provi- 
sions of this chapter; but no person shall have 
in his possession or under his control the green 
head or green skin of a deer between the tenth 
day of January and the succeeding 21st day of 
November of each year, or at any time a deer 
head in the velvet, or a deer skin in the red, 
blue or spotted coat. (Penalty $50 to $100.) 

29.41 Skins of Fur-Bearing Animals. The 

skin of any fur-bearing animal lawfully killed, 
when separated from the rest of the carcass is 
not subject to the provisions of this chapter; but 
no person shall have in his possession % or under 
his control the skin of any fisher, marten, mink, 
or muskrat showing that the same has been 
shot or speared, nor the green skin of any fur- 
bearing animal from the fifth day after the be- 
ginning of the close season for such animal until 
the ending thereof. (Penalty $50— $100.) 

29.42 Possession of Game Birds. ( 1 ) With- 
out license. No person, other than the holder of 
a hunting license or scientist's certificate duly 
issued to him and in force and carried by him 
on his person, shall have in his possession or 
under his control any game bird, or animal, or 
the carcass or any part thereof. (Penalty $50 to 
$100 plus $5 for each bird.) 

(2) Nests and eggs. No person shall take or 
needlessly destroy, or have in his possession or 
under his control, except by virtue of a scientist's 
certificate, the nest or eggs of any wild bird for 
which a close season is prescribed in this 
chapter. (Penalty $50 to $100.) 



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TRANSPORTATION OF GAME 

29.43 Transportation; General Provisions. 

(1) During close season. No person shall trans- 
port or cause to be transported, or deliver or re- 
ceive or offer to deliver or receive for transporta- 
tion, any game or game fish or carcass or part 
thereof during the close season therefor, whether 
lawfully or unlawfully taken within or without 
the state. Whenever any game or game fish or 
carcass or part thereof is offered to any person 
for transportation during the close season there- 
for such person shall forthwith notify the state 
conservation commission or its deputy, stating 
full particulars of such offer and by whom made. 

(2) Trunks; valises. No person shall carry 
with him or under his control in any trunk, 
valise, or other package or enclosure, at any time, 
any game or game fish, or carcass or part 
thereof. 

(3) Transportation employes. No employe of 
any railroad, express, or other transportation 
company, and no steward, porter, or other em- 
ploye of any dining, parlor or sleeping car shall 
have in his personal possession or under his per- 
sonal control, at any time while in such service, 
any game or game fish, or carcass or part 
thereof. 

(4) Labeling game shipments. No person 
shall transport or cause to be transported, or de- 
liver or receive for transportation, any package 
or parcel containing any wild animal or carcass 
or part thereof, unless the same is labeled in 
plain letters on the address side of such pack- 
age or parcel so as to disclose the name and ad- 



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dress of the consignor, the name and address of 
the consignee, and the number of pounds of each 
kind of fish or the number of each variety of 
other wild animals; or carcasses, or parts 
thereof, contained therein; and unless the con- 
signor is the owner of such shipment and shall 
deliver to the common carrier therewith, either 
personally, or by agent, a writing signed by him 
personally, stating that he is the owner of the 
shipment. (Penalty $50— $100.) 

29.44 Interstate Transportation of Game. 

No person shall transport or cause to be trans- 
ported, or deliver or receive or offer to deliver 
or receive " for transportation, into or through 
this state, any game or game fish or carcass or 
part thereof from any other state in violation of 
the laws of such state relating to the transporta- 
tion thereof; nor any game or game fish or car- 
cass or part thereof lawfully transported from 
any other state, nor have the same in his posses- 
sion or under his control, during the close season 
or in excess of the limitations prescribed for 
such animal in this chapter, unless a permit 
therefor has been duly issued to such person by 
the state conservation commission; but any per- 
son who has lawfully killed a deer in this state 
may, on his license only, take such deer into 
any adjoining state, if the laws thereof permit, 
and ship the same from any point in that state 
to any point within this state. (Penalty $50— 
$100.) 

29.45 Transportation of Deer. (1) No com- 
mon carrier shall receive for transportation or 
transport or attempt to transport any deer, or 

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carcass or part thereof, otherwise than as pro- 
vided in this section. 

(2) Each holder of a resident hunting license, 
settler's hunting license, or nonresident general 
hunting license, may transport or cause to be 
transported one deer between the last ten days 
of November of each year; but must accompany 
the same from the point of shipment to the 
point of destination. 

(3) The place of delivery of any such ship- 
ment by a resident licensee shall be within the 
state, and by a nonresident licensee may be 
either within the state or at his residence with- 
out the state. (Penalty '$50.00— $100.00.) 

29.46 Transportation of Game Birds. (1) 

No common carrier shall receive for transporta- 
tion or transport or attempt to transport any 
game bird, or carcass or part thereof, otherwise 
than as follows: Each holder of a hunting li- 
cense may carry with him openly, in his per- 
sonal possession, a mixed bag of not more than 
twenty such birds, but not more than the bag 
limit for one day of any one variety; but no such 
licensee resident within this state shall carry or 
convey any such birds beyond the borders of 
the state. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00 plus $5.00 
for each bird.) 

29.47 Transportation of Fish. (1) Time lim- 
itation. No person shall transport or cause to 
be transported, or deliver or receive or offer to 
deliver or receive for transportation, any game 
fish taken from inland waters, during the period 
extending from the first day of January to the 
last day of the close season for such fish, in eacb 
^ear. 



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(2) From inland waters. No person shall 
transport or cause to be transported, or deliver 
or receive or offer to deliver or receive for trans- 
portation, at any time, any game fish taken from 
inland waters other than as follows: 

(a) One shipment only of not more than one 
package, and containing not more than twenty 
pounds of game fish of any variety other than 
those named in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this 
subsection, but not more than the bag limit for 
one day or containing in lieu thereof not more 
than two such fish of any weight, may be trans- 
ported by any resident to any point within the 
state, or by any nonresident licensee to any point 
without the state in each period of seven days. 
Nonresident hook and line fishing licenses may 
be issued by the state conservation commission to 
any nonresident female over the age of sixteen 
years for the purpose of making shipment with- 
out the state, under the provisions of this sec- 
tion. 

(b) Any shipment containing more than 
twenty but not exceeding fifty pounds of game 
fish of any variety other than those named in 
paragraphs (c) and (d) of this subsection may 
be transported only to a point within this state, 
and must be accompanied by the owner from 
the point of shipment to the point of destination. 

(c) Thirty -five trout of any variety other 
than lake trout may be transported to any point 
within or without the state, when accompanied 
by the owner from the point of shipment to the 
point of destination. 

(d) One shipment only, containing not more 
than twenty pounds of lake trout taken from in- 
land waters, may be transported by any person 



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in each period of seven days, to any point within 
or without this state, when accompanied by the 
owner from the point of shipment to the point 
of destination. 

(3) From outlying waters.- The transporta- 
tion of fish taken in outlying waters is subject 
to the following limitations: 

(a) No green fish of any variety shall be 
shipped from any port located on outlying wa- 
ters during the close season for such fish, ex- 
cept the first three days thereof. 

(b) Pike and pickerel of lawful size and law- 
fully taken from outlying waters may be trans- 
ported to points within or without the state with- 
out limitation as to quantity; but all such ship- 
ments shall be billed only from a port on outlying 
waters directly to their destination, and shall not 
be rebilled or reshipped from any other point 
within the state. 

(4) Shipments from inland points. Any 
shipment of game fish of any variety originating 
at any point in this state other than ports located 
on outlying waters is subject to the provisions 
of this section governing the transportation of 
game fish taken from inland waters. 

(5) Foreign shipments. Pike and pickerel in 
a frozen state, whether dressed or not dressed, 
legally taken or imported from any foreign coun- 
try, are not subject to any of the provisions of 
this chapter except subsection (10) of section 
29.33; but the person importing, transporting, 
dealing in, or selling such fish shall keep a sepa- 
rate record of all shipments and consignments 
thereof, containing the number of pounds, the 
date received, the name of- the consignor, and 
the name of the carrier transporting the same, 



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which shall be at all times open to inspection by 
the state conservation commission or its deputies. 
(6) Injurious fish. Live carp minnows and 
dogfish minnows shall not be transported within 
the state. (Penalty $50.00— $100.00) 



COMMERCE IN GAME 

29.48 Sale of Game. Except as provided by 
section 29.52 no person shall sell, purchase, or 
barter, or offer to sell, purchr.se, or barter, or 
have in his possession or under his control for 
the purpose of sale or barter, any deer, squirrel, 
game bird, black bass, muskellunge, or trout 
other than lake trout, or the carcass or part 
thereof, at any time; nor any other game fish 
taken from inland waters during the period ex- 
tending from the first day of January to the next 
succeeding twenty-ninth day of May of each 
year; nor any other game or other wild animal, 
or carcass or part thereof, during the close sea- 
son therefor. This section applies, whether such 
animals were lawfully or unlawfully taken 
within or without the state. (Penalty $50— $100.) 

29.49 Serving of Game to Guests. (1) Pro- 
hibited. Except as provided by section 29.52 no 
innkeeper, manager or steward of any restau- 
rant, club, hotel, boarding house, saloon, logging 
camp, or mining camp shall sell, barter, serve or 
give, or cause to be sold, bartered, served, or 
given to the guests or boarders thereof the meat 
of any deer, squirrel, game bird, or trout other 
than lake trout, or the carcass or part thereof,, 
at any time; nor any other game fish taken from, 
inland waters during the period extending from 



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the first day of January to the next succeeding 
twenty-ninth day of May of each year; nor any 
frog or other game or other wild animal, or car- 
cass or part thereof, during the close season 
therefor, except rabbits in counties containing a 
city of the first class. This section applies, 
whether such animals were lawfully or unlaw- 
fully taken within or without the state. 

(2) Free lunch. The giving, offering, or af- 
fording opportunity to take free lunch in any of 
the places named in the preceding subsection 
shall be held to be embraced within the prohibi- 
tions thereof. 

(3) Penalty. Violations of this section shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
nine months nor more than one year, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment. 

29.52 Private Fish Hatcheries. (1) No per- 
son shall stock any private fish hatchery with 
fish or fry obtained from any Wisconsin state 
fish hatchery, or from any waters of the ate 
except when such fish have been taken in a law- 
ful manner. 

(2) The term "private fish hatchery" in- 
cludes only private ponds, with or without build- 
ings, used for the purpose of propagating fish 
and located as follows: 

(a) At the headwaters of or along a stream 
for a distance of not to exceed one mile, on pri- 
vate land possessed and controlled by the owner 
or owners of such hatchery. 

(b) On private land where the supply of wa- 



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ter for the hatchery is furnished by springs or 
artificial wells. 

(c) On private land where the supply of wa- 
ter for the hatchery is obtained by the use of 
flumes, pipes, or ditches from flowing streams, 
provided that said flumes, pipes, or ditches, shall 
be properly screened so as to prevent fish from 
passing from such streams to the ponds of such 
hatchery. 

( 3 ) The owner or lessee of any private hatch- 
ery shall report to the state conservation com- 
mission the name, if any, and location of such 
hatchery, whereupon the commission shall in- 
spect, and in its discretion number and register 
such hatchery and immediately inform the own- 
er or lessee of the number given such hatchery; 
such owner or lessee shall, however, pay a regis- 
tration fee of five dollars, and all expenses of 
inspection except the salary of the employe who 
inspects the hatchery. 

(4) Each package or box containing fish 
propagated and raised in any private hatchery 
and shipped or offered for shipment shall be 
branded with an iron brand as follows: "Shipped 
from the private fish hatchery of (insert name 
of owner or lessee, location, and number of 
hatchery)" and such brands shall not be used on 
packages containing fish not taken from such 
private hatchery. 

(5) Any person who shall, without permis- 
sion of the owner, trespass or fish on the waters 
of a private hatchery or fish pond properly regis- 
tered with the state conservation commission, 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than fif- 
teen dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars 



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and in default of payment thereof shall be im- 
prisoned in the county jail for not less than ten 
days nor more than twenty days; provided, that 
the owner of such private fish hatchery or fish 
pond gives notice by maintaining signboards, at 
least one foot square, in at least two conspicuous 
places to every forty acres. Prosecutions under 
this subsection shall be by the owner of such 
private hatchery or pond. 

29.53 Private fish ponds. ( 1 ) The owner or 
lessee of all of the lands underlying, surround- 
ing, or bordering upon any pond, lake or slough, 
natural or artificial, navigable or non-navigable, 
meandered or not meandered, tributory to and 
connected with the Mississippi river, which pond, 
lake or slough does not exceed at low water one 
square mile in surface area, shall have the right, 
upon complying with the provisions of this sec- 
tion, to erect, establish, operate and maintain on, 
in or about such pond, lake, or slough, a private 
hatchery and fishery for the purpose of hatching, 
propagating and fishing therein rough fish, in- 
cluding buffalo fish and carp. 

(2) Such owner or lessee desiring to erect, 
establish, operate and maintain a private hatch- 
ery and fishery in conformity with this section, 
shall file with the state conservation commission 
a verified declaration designating and describing 
the pond, lake or slough, which the declarant 
desires to use for the purpose of hatching, prop- 
agating and fishing rough fish therein, a descrip- 
tion of all the lands underlying, surrounding, 
or bordering upon such water and the title or 
leasehold of the declarant therein. Such dec- 
laration shall also state in square miles and 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 67 

fraction of square miles the area of such pond, 
lake or slough, at low water. 

(3) Upon the filing of such declaration, the 
state conservation commission shall forthwith 
examine and investigate the same and may re- 
quire the declarant to produce satisfactory evi- 
dence of the facts therein stated. If upon such 
examination it shall appear that the pond, lake 
or slough designated in the declaration does not 
exceed at low water one square mile in surface 
area and that the declarant is the owner or les- 
see of all of the lands underlying, surrounding, 
or bordering upon such water, and that the 
declarant intends in good faith to erect, estab- 
lish, operate, and maintain a hatchery and fish- 
ery on, in and about such water for the propaga- 
tion or fishing of rough fish therein, the com- 
mission shall issue to the declarant a certificate 
under seal of the commission, which shall desig- 
nate such pond, lake or siough, and certify that 
the declarant is lawfully entitled to use the same 
for the hatching, propagation and fishing of 
rough fish therein and to erect, establish, oper- 
ate and maintain a private hatchery and fishery 
for the purpose of hatching, propagating and 
fishing therein of rough fish, including buffalo 
fish and carp. 

(4) Such certificate of the commission shall 
be prima facie evidence in all courts and pro- 
ceedings of the lawful right of the declarant 
therein named, his or its successors or assigns 
for the full term of twenty-five years from the 
date of issuance thereof, to erect, establish, oper- 
ate and maintain a private hatchery and fishery 
in the pond, lake or slough therein designated 
and shall, unless and until sooner revoked as 



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hereinafter provided, entitle the declarant therein 
named, his or its successors or assigns, to the 
exclusive right for and during said term to 
propagate and fish rough fish therein and to 
exclusive and sole ownership of and property in 
all rough fish caught or taken therefrom. 

(5) If it shall be reasonably necessary to the 
successful operation of such hatchery and fishery 
that screens or other structures shall be erected 
and maintained in any brook, creek or stream 
flowing into or out of such pond, lake or slough, 
in order to prevent the escape from any such 
hatchery or fishery of rough fish, authority is 
hereby granted to erect, and maintain the same 
in such brook, creek or stream and upon the 
land owned or leased by the holder of such cer- 
tificate, provided that the character and location 
of such screens or other structures for such pur- 
pose shall be determined by the commission in 
said certificate and, provided further, that if it 
shall at any time appear that inch brook, creek 
or stream is used by the public for the purposes 
of navigation, the commission may, if such pub- 
lic use is substantial and reasonably necessitates 
the same, require locks or boatways to be erected 
and maintained in connection with and as a 
condition of the right to erect and maintain such 
screens or structures and may fix the character 
of such locks or boatways. 

(6) The failure at any time for a period of 
two years to operate or maintain any such hatch- 
ery or fishery for which a certificate has been 
issued hereunder for propagating or fishing 
rough fish therein shall work a forfeiture of 
such ceriificate and of all right thereunder. 
Such certificate and all rights thereunder shall 



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be assignable and shall pass with the title or 
leasehold stated in the declaration upon which 
the same was issued and, if issued upon a lease- 
hold merely, shall terminate with such leasehold. 
(7) Nothing in this section contained shall 
be construed to affect any public right of fishing 
or navigation, except as herein expressly pro- 
vided. 

29.56 Forest County Game Refuge. Town- 
ship 38 north, of range 12 and 13 east, Forest 
county, 'shall be known as the Forest County 
Game Refuge. No person shall at any time or 
in any manner, hunt any game within said 
Refuge. 

29.57 Wild Life Refuges. Subsection (4) 
Absolute Protection. No owner of lands em- 
braced within any wild life refuge (established 
under subsections (i) (2) and (3) of this sec- 
tion) and no other person whatever, shall hunt 
or trap within the boundaries of any wild life 
refuge, state park or state fish hatchery lands; 
nor have in his possession or under his control 
therein any gun or rifle, unless the same is un- 
loaded and knocked down or enclosed within its 
carrying case; but nothing herein shall prohibit, 
prevent or interfere with the state conservation 
commission, or its deputies, agents or employes, 
in the destruction of injurious animals. 

29.575 Muskrat farming. (1) Muskrat 
farmers' licenses which shall authorize the li- 
censee to engage in the business of breeding and 
selling muskrats shall be issued subject to the 
provisions of section 29.09 by the state conserva- 
tion commission to any person duly applying 
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(2) In addition to the fact required by sec- 
tion 29.09 each such licensee, and the applica- 
tion therefor, shall state the description of the 
premises to be covered by the license, the num- 
ber of acres comprised in said description, and 
that the applicant or licensee is the owner or 
lessee thereof. The minimum fee for each such 
license shall be five dollars per year, and an ad- 
ditional charge of one cent per acre shall be 
paid for all premises covered by the license in 
excess of five hundred acres. 

(3) Any such licensee and his employees 
may take, trap, kill, possess, transport or sell 
any muskrats found upon the premises covered 
by such license at any time during the open sea- 
son therefor, and such muskrats may be taken 
on such premises by said licensee and his em- 
ployes in any manner whatsoever except by 
shooting and spearing, provided however, that 
all such employes shall be required to take out 
the ordinary trapper's license. 

(4) On or about the first day of June each 
year each such licensee shall make a report to 
the state conservation commission covering the 
period from the first day of May to the 30th 
day of April next preceding, upon blanks fur- 
nished by the commission, stating the number 
of his license, the total number and value of 
muskrats killed, transported or sold during said 
period under the provisions of this section, the 
names of the persons to whom the same were 
transported or sold, and such other information 
as may be required on the blanks furnished. 
Each such report shall be verified by the affidavit 
of the licensee. 



Statutes .Relating to Wild Animals. 71 



DESTRUCTION OF INJURIOUS ANIMALS 

29.58 Muskrats Injuring Dams. The owner 
or lessee of any dam may in any manner capture 
or kill muskrats at any time when said muskrats 
are injuring or destroying such dams or the 
levees connected therewith; but shall not sell, 
barter, or give to any other person the skin of 
any muskrat captured or killed during the ciose 
season therefor. 

29.59 Beaver Causing Damage. (1) Com- 
plaint. Upon complaint in writing, by the owner 
or lessee of any lands, to the state conservation 
commission, that beaver are causing damage 
thereto the commission shall employ such means 
as it may deem wise to inquire into the matter; 
and if, upon inspection, investigation, hearing, or 
otherwise, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the 
commission that the facts stated in such com- 
plaint are true, it may, by written permit, au- 
thorize the said owner or- lessee to capture and 
remove such beaver, as hereinafter prescribed. 

(2) Supervision. No beaver shall be captured 
or killed under such permit except only during 
such period of time, from and after the first day 
of January in each year, as may be limited by 
the commission, and then only under the direct 
supervision of a deputy conservation warden. 

(3) Disposition of animals. The owner or 
lessee shall capture, alive and without avoidable 
injury, such number of beaver as may be des- 
ignated by the commission, for delivery to 
zoological parks or collections or for transplanta- 
tion to other localities within the state; all 



72 &TATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 

others shall he killed and skinned with care to 
conserve the value of the skins, which shall be 
shipped without delay to Madison, consigned to 
the state conservation commission. 

(4) Sale and disposition, of proceeds. All 
such skins shall be sold by the commission, in 
the manner of a sale of confiscated game, and 
the proceeds paid into the conservation fund. 

(5) In Price, Rusk, and Sawyer counties. Li- 
censes for the taking, catching or killing of 
beaver in Price, . Rusk, and Sawyer counties dur- 
ing the open season therefor, as provided in sub- 
division (a) of subsection (3) of section 29.18, 
may be issued by the conservation commission 
to residents who duly apply therefor and no per- 
son shall take, catch or kill beaver in said coun- 
ties without procuring such a license. Said li- 
cense shall cover the period for the months of 
February and March following date of issue and 
the fee therefor shall be two dollars and fifty 
cents for each such license. No skin of any 
beaver taken, caught or killed under said license 
shall be delivered, transported or shipped unless 
it has attached thereto a distinctive tag to be 
prescribed and furnished by the state conserva- 
tion commission. Licensees shall dispose of all 
beaver skins on or before the twentieth day of 
January following the date of the issuance of 
the license and every licensee shall on or before 
the thirtieth day of January following the date 
of the issuance of his license return the same to 
the state conservation commission for cancella- 
tion together with a complete report on a blank 
to be furnished by the said commission stating 
the number of beavers taken, caught or killed, 
the name of the town in which the same were 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 73 

taken, caught or killed, the disposition of the 
hides and the amount received therefor. Any 
resident of Price, Rusk and Sawyer counties 
who have suffered or is likely to suffer damage 
because of any beaver dam on his land shall 
notify the game warden of his district of such 
fact. After the expiration of five days after giv- 
ing such notice, said resident may open said 
dam. No resident of said county shall be al- 
lowed any claim against this state for damages 
sustained on account of beaver during the years 
1917 and 1918. 

(6) Penalty. Violations of this section shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
nine months nor more than one year, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment. 

29.595 Deer Causing Damage. Upon com- 
plaint in writing by the owner or lessee of any 
lands, to the state conservation commission, that 
deer are causing damage therein the commis- 
sion shall inquire into the matter; and if upon 
inspection, investigation, hearing, or otherwise, 
it shall appear to the satisfaction of the commis- 
sion that the facts stated in each such complaint 
are true, it may capture or destroy such deer, 
and dispose of the same as provided in subsec- 
tion (3) and (4) of section 29.59. 

(iSection 29.60 "Bounties on wolves and Foxes") 

(Section 29.61 "Destruction of Other Injurious 
Animals; Rewards'") 

N. B. — The above two sections are printed in 
separate pamphlet form and will be forwarded 
on request under authority of secretary of state. 



74 State Conservation Commission. 

29.62 Removal of Injurious Rough Pish. (1) 

The state conservation commission is authorized 
to take rough fish by means of nets, or cause the 
same to be so taken, from any of the inland wa- 
ters of this state other than those specified in 
subsection (2), whenever it shall find that such 
fish are detrimental to, retard the propagation 
of, or destroy game fish therein. 

(2) The authority granted to the commission 
by subsection (1) does not extend to Lake Kosh- 
konong; any stream or river flowing into Green 
Bay or Lake Michigan except that part of the 
Pox river and its tributaries above the city of 
Appleton; the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin, 
Lake St Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous and 
sloughs tributary thereto and connected there- 
with; and any stream or river flowing into the 
Mississippi river, within a distance of forty miles 
above the mouth of such stream or river. 

(3) All fish taken under the authority of this 
section including rough fish and fish from which 
the spawn is removed shall be disposed of by 
the commission to municipalities conducting 
public markets. Any surplus remaining after 
said municipalities are supplied may be disposed 
of by the commission to the best interests of the 
state; and temporary fish ponds may be created 
in the waters of this state for the purpose of 
keeping such fish until the same can be advan- 
tageously disposed of. 

(4) (a) The state conservation commission 
shall cause rough fish to be taken from the wa- 
ters of Lakes Winnebago, Winneconne, Poygan, 
Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, Pucka- 
way, and the Wolf and Fox rivers at any time 
of the year. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 75 

(b) The term "rough fish" as used in para- 
graph (a) hereof, shall mean and Include pick- 
erel, buffalo fish, carp, eelpout, dogfish, sheeps 
head, billfish, red horse, suckers, lawyers, lizards 
blue gills, sunfish, bullheads, catfish and crap pies 

(c) Whenever the state conservation com- 
mission takes rough fish under the provisions of 
this subsection it shall dispose of the same at 
cost to towns, villages and cities maintaining 
public markets, whenever possible and the bal- 
ance of said rough fish shall be disposed of as 
the commission sees fit. 

PENALTIES 

29.63 General Penalty Provisions. (1) Pen- 
alties. Any person who, for himself, or by his 
agent, servant, or employe, or who, as agent, 
servant, or employe for another, violates any of 
the provisions of this chapter shall be punished, 
respectively, as follows: 

(a) For the unlawful use of any gill net in 
taking, catching or killing fish of any variety in 
any waters, or for the use of any net in taking, 
catching or killing trout of any variety in inland 
waters, by a fine of not less than two hundred 
nor more than five hundred dollars, or by im- 
prisonment in the county jail not less than nine 
months nor more than one year, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 

(b) For hunting, trapping, fishing, or clam- 
ming without a license duly issued, whenever a 
license therefor is required by the provisions of 
this chapter, or for hunting, under a receipt or 
other evidence of having filed an application, in 
anticipation of the issuance and delivery of such 



76 State Conservation Commission. 

license, or for the violation of any provision 
relating to deer, by a fine of not less than fifty 
nor more than one hundred dollars, or by im- 
prisonment in the county jail not less than thirty 
days nor more than six months, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 

(c) For the violation of any provision relating 
to game birds, by a fine of not less than fifty 
nor more than one hundred dollars, and in ad- 
dition thereto five dollars for each bird affected 
by such violation, or by imprisonment in the 
county jail not less than thirty days nor more 
than six months, or by both such fine and im- 
prisonment. 

[Dogs. Section 1629 of the statutes created 
by the legislature of 1919 — covers the state li- 
censing of dogs and provides penalties for dam- 
ages.] 

(d) For any violation for which no other 
penalty is prescribed, by a fine of not less than 
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not less than 
thirty days nor more than six months, or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 

(2) "Person" defined. The word "person" as 
used in this section includes natural persons, 
firms, associations, and corporations. 

(3) Revocation of license. Upon conviction 
of any person for any violation under any license 
issued to such person, such license shall be im- 
mediately revoked and canceled, and no license 
shall be issued to such person for a period of 
one year thereafter. 

(4) Construction of penalty provisions. No 
penalty prescribed in any section of this chapter 
shall be held to be diminished because the viola- 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 77 

tion for which it is prescribed falls also within 
the scope of a more general prohibition. 

(5) Presumptions. In any prosecution under 
this section it shall not be necessary for the 
state to allege or prove that the animals were 
not domesticated or were not taken for scientific 
purposes, or were taken or in possession or under 
control without a license or permit therefor; but 
the person claiming that such animals were do- 
mesticated, or were taken for scientific purposes, 
or were taken or in possession or under control 
under a license or permit duly issued, shall have 
the burden of proving such fact or facts. 

(6) Reward to informers. Any person other 
than the regular employes of the state conserva- 
tion commission, informing of the violation of 
any provision of this chapter and assisting in 
the prosecution of the offender to conviction 
shall receive one-third of any fine imposed and 
collected thereupon. 

Setting spring guns. Section 4394. Any per- 
son who shall set or fix in any manner whatever 
any gun, pistol or other firearm, or any spring 
gun for the purpose of killing game of any kind 
by coming in contact therewith or with any 
string, wire or other contrivance attached there- 
to, by 'which the same may be discharged, or for 
any other purpose, shall be punished by imprison- 
ment in the state prison not less than six months 
nor more than three years; and if the death of 
any person is caused thereby he shall be deemed 
guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. 

False Impersonation as Deputy Conservation 
Warden. Section 4562a. Any person who shall 
falsely represent himself to be a deputy conserva- 



78 State Conservation Commission. 

tion warden, or who shall assume to act as such 
without having been first duly appointed as such, 
shall be punished by imprisonment in the county 
jail not more than six months, or by a fine not 
to exceed one hundred dollars. 

Alteration of Hunting license. Section 45626. 
Any person who shall change or alter, in any 
manner, a license or deer tag for the pursuit, 
hunting or killing of game shall be punished by 
a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor 
more than five hundred dollars, or by imprison- 
ment in the county jail not less than six months 
nor exceeding one year. 

False Statement of Residence in Application 
for Hunting License. Section 4562c. Any per- 
son who shall make to any county clerk author- 
ized to issue licenses for the pursuit, hunting or 
killing of game a false statement concerning his 
residence, and thereby obtain such a license 
therefor as only residents of this state are en- 
titled to, shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than five hundred dollars nor more than one 
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the 
county jail not less than four months nor more 
than one year, or in the state prison not exceed- 
ing one year. 

Section 4562d. Any person who shall break, 
remove or interfere with any seal or tag at- 
tached to any animal, carcass, article or other 
thing by the state conservation commission, or 
who shall meddle or interfere with any animal, 
carcass, article or other thing with such seal or 
tag attached, or who shall counterfeit any such 
seal or tag, attached or unattached, shall be 
punished by a fine of not less than two hundred 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 19 

nor more than five hundred dollars, or by im- 
prisonment in the county jail not less than nine 
months nor more than one year, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 

Taking Carrier Pigeon. Section 45656. Any 
person who shall take, catch, kill, impede in its 
progress or otherwise interfere with any carrier 
or homing pigeon shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dol- 
lars, or by imprisonment in the county jail fop 
not more than three months. 

Hunting on Lands of Another. Section 45650. 
Any person who shall enter into any growing or 
standing grain not his own, with firearms or per- 
mit his dog to enter into any such grain, without 
the permission of the owner or occupant of the 
land on which such grain is situate or any per- 
son who shall, without permission of the owner, 
hunt or shoot on the premises of another in- 
closed by a fence and used as a pasture for stock, 
or shall hunt or shoot upon any other land of 
another after being notified not to hunt or shoot 
thereon, shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than five dollars nor more than ten dollars and 
in default of payment thereof, shall be impris- 
oned in the county jail not less than ten days 
nor more than thirty days; provided, that this 
section shall not limit or in any way affect civil 
liability on account of such trespass. Any owner 
or occupant of land may give the notice provided 
for in this section by maintaining signboards, at 
least one foot square, containing such notice 
upon at least every forty acres of the premise* 
sought to be protected, in at least two conspicu- 



80 State Conservation Commis. ton. 

ous places, or by giving personal, written or 
verbal notice. 

Taking Frogs on Lands of Another. Section 
4565dm. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
take, catch, kill or have in his possession any 
frogs or parts of frogs taken from lands owned 
by another without the consent of the owner of 
said lands, and any person violating the provi- 
sions of this section shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more 
than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the 
county jail not less than fifteen days nor more 
than sixty days. 

Removal of Live Fish or Fish Eggs. Section 
4567b. Any person who shall come into this 
state and remove fish eggs or fish of any variety 
therefrom while the fish are alive, without hav- 
ing a permit from the state conservation com- 
mission to do so, shall be fined not less than fifty 
dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not 
less than ten days nor more than thirty days. 

Unlawful Fishing by Employe of Conservation 
Commission. Section 4567c. It shall be unlaw- 
ful for any employe of the state conservation 
commission, while engaged in catching wild fish 
from the public waters for the purpose of arti- 
ficial propagation, to have in his possession any 
other kinds of fish than those he has been di- 
rected to take by the commission or its agent, 
duly authorized in writing. For violation of this 
section the offender shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more 
than fifty dollars and be removed from any office 



Statutes (Relating to Wild Animals. 81 

or position he may hold under or by the author- 
ity of such commission. 

Criminal trespass on hatcheries. Section 
4567&. Any person who shall enter upon the 
grounds of any state fish hatchery for the purpose 
of unlawfully killing or taking any fish there- 
from shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred 
dollars or by imprisonment not less than thirty 
days nor more than sixty days. 

Killing Fish in State Hatchery. Section 4567e. 
Any person who shall unlawfully and without 
proper authority kill, take or catch any fish from 
any waters or grounds belonging to or connected 
with any state fish hatchery shall be punished 
as provided in section 4415. 

Injuring property of hatchery. Section 4567/. 
Any person who shall injure any fish, or in any 
manner interfere harmfully with the ponds, 
streams, troughs or other property of the state 
fish hatchery, without lawful authority so to do, 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty 
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; but 
this section shall in no wise change or affect any 
liability for arson or other burnings, nor burg- 
lary or other breakings, nor larceny of any prop- 
erty. 

Summary Arrest. Section 45 670. The person 
in charge of any fish hatchery is hereby empow- 
ered and required summarily and without proc- 
ess to arrest any person, who has violated the 
provisions of either of the three preceding sec- 



82 State Conservation Commission. 

tions, found upon the grounds of any state fish 
hatchery, and to deliver such person forthwith 
to some proper officer for prosecution. 

CONSERVATION FUND 

20.205 Conservation fund appropriation. All 

moneys, except fines, accruing to the state by 
reason of any provision of chapter 29 of the stat- 
utes, or otherwise received or collected by each 
and every person for or in behalf of the state 
conservation commission, if not payable into the 
forest reserve fund, shall constitute the "conser- 
vation fund" and shall be paid, within one week 
after receipt, into the state treasury and credited 
to said fund. No money shall be expended or 
paid from the conservation fund except in pursu- 
ance of an appropriation by law; but any unap- 
propriated surplus in said fund may be expended 
subject to the approval of the governor, secretary 
of state, and state treasurer, for additional equip- 
ment, new buildings, new hatcheries, or hatchery 
ponds, property improvements, increasing the 
warden force at any particular period, or any 
other similar special purpose except road work 
or improvement work on the state parks. 



REPORT VIOLATIONS 

OF THE FISH AND GAME 

LAWS TO THE NEAREST 

WARDEN. 

SEE LIST OF WARDENS 

IN FRONT OF BOOK. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. &3 

FEDERAL LAWS 
Regulations for the Protection of Migratory Birds 

All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, 
snipe, plover, woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, and 
all other migratory game and insectivorous birds 
which in their northern and southern migrations 
pass through or do not remain permanently the 
entire year within the borders of any state or 
territory, shall hereafter be deemed to be within 
the custody and protection of the Government of 
the United States, and shall not be destroyed or 
taken contrary to regulations hereinafter pro- 
vided therefor. 

The Department of Agriculture is hereby au- 
thorized and directed to adopt suitable regula- 
tions to give effect to the previous paragraph by 
prescribing and fixing closed seasons, having due 
regard to the zones of temperature, breeding 
habits, and times and line of migratory flight, 
thereby enabling the department to select and 
designate suitable districts for different portions 
of the country, and it shall be unlawful to shoot 
or by any device kill or seize and capture migra- 
tory birds within the protection of this law dur- 
ing said closed seasons, and any person who 
shall violate any of the provisions or regulations 
of this law for the protection of migratory birds 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be 
fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more 
than 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the 
court. 

The Department of Agriculture, after the prep- 
aration of said regulations, shall cause the same 



84 State Conservation Commission. 

to be made public, and shall allow a period of 
three months in which said regulations may be 
examined and considered before final adoption, 
permitting, when deemed proper, public hear- 
ings thereon, and after final adoption shall cause 
the same to be engrossed and submitted to the 
President of the United States for approval: 
Provided however, That nothing herein contained 
shall be deemed to affect or interfere with the 
local laws of the states and territories for the 
protection of nonmigratory game or other birds 
resident and breeding within their borders, nor 
to prevent the states and territories from enact- 
ing laws and regulations to promote and render 
efficient the regulations of the Department of 
Agriculture provided under this statute. 

Federal Regulations for Protection of Migratory 
Birds 

On October 1st, 1913, the president gave his 
approval to certain regulations for the protec- 
tion of migratory game and insectivorous birds 
that had been adopted and promulgated by the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture pursuant to the 
Weeks-McLean Migratory Bird Law. These 
regulations became effective at once and have, 
superseded all state legislation, so far as closed 
seasons on migratory game and insectivorous 
birds are concerned. 

The regulations are to be enforced by the fed- 
eral government with the cooperation of the 
states; violations are triable only in the federal 
courts, and prosecutions may be brought at any 
time within three years of the date vt the of- 
fense. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 81 

Open Season Under Federal Regulations 

Waterfowl, rails, coots, gallinules, plover, 
jacksnipe, and yellowlegs, in Wisconsin: Sep- 
tember 16 to December 10. 

Shooting prohibited between sunset and 30 
minutes before sunrise. 

Consult State laws. A state date governs 
when it opens the season later or closes it earlier 
than the Federal Regulation. 



The Liacey Law. 

Section 242. It shall be unlawful for any per- 
son to deliver to any common carrier for trans- 
portation, or for any common carrier to trans- 
port from any State, territory, or District of the 
United States, to any other state, territory, or 
District thereof, any foreign animals or birds, 
the importation of which is prohibited, or the 
dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals 
or birds, where such animals or birds have been 
killed or shipped in violation of the laws of the 
state, territory, or district in which the same 
were killed, or from which they were shipped: 
Provided, that nothing herein shall prevent the 
transportation of any dead birds or animals 
killed during the season when the same may be 
lawfully captured, and the export of which is not 
prohibited by law in the state, territory, or dis- 
trict in which the same are captured or killed: 
Provided further, That nothing herein shall pre- 
vent the importation, transportation, or sale of 
birds or bird plumage, manufactured from the 
feathers of barnyard fowls. 



£6 State Conservation Commission. 

Section 243. All packages containing the 
dead bodies, or the plumage, or parts thereof, of 
fame animals, or game or other wild birds, 
when shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, 
•hall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the 
name and address of the shipper, and the nature 
of the contents, be readily ascertained on an in- 
spection of the outside of such package. 

Section 244. For each evasion or violation of 
any provision of the three sections last preced- 
ing, the shipper shall be fined not more than two 
hundred dollars; the consignee knowingly re- 
ceiving such articles so shipped and transported 
In violation of said sections shall be fined not 
more than two hundred dollars; and the carrier 
knowingly carrying or transporting the same in 
violation of said sections shall be fined not more 
than two hundred dollars. 



KEEP THE FOREST GREEN! 

DON'T BUILD BONFIRES! 

DID YOU PUT YOUR CAMP 

FIRE OUT? 

FOREST FIRES ARE NEEDLESS! 

PREVENT THEM! 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 87 



SPECIAL ORDERS ISSUED BY THE 

STATE CONSERVATION 

COMMISSION 

Under Section 29.21 of the Statutes. 

Order No. 2 

It is hereby ordered that the following regula- 
tions and restrictions shall pertain to the taking 
and catching of fish, as allowed by law from the 
waters of . Lake Wisconsin. Said Lake Wiscon- 
sin shall be known as all the waters, including 
sloughs, bays, bayous and back-waters of the 
Wisconsin river above the dam near Prairie du 
Sac up to that point where the north boundary 
line of the town of De Korra, Columbia county, 
intersects said river. 

Pickerel: Legal size 18 inches; daily bag 
limit, 10 fish. 

Northern Pike:' Legal size, 18 inches; daily 
bag limit, 10 fish. 

Pike, Pike-Perch, Wall-Eyed Pike: Legal size 
16 inches; daily bag limit, 10 fish. 

Large Mouth Black Bass, Small Mouth Black 
Bass, Oswego Bass, Green Bass, Pink Eye Bass: 
Legal size, 12 inches; daily bag limit, 10 fish. 

Crappie, Blue Gill, Sun Fish: No size .limit. 
Daily mixed bag limit of 50 fish. 

None of the above specified fish shall be sold 
or bartered. 

Set lines under section 29.37 shall be prohib- 
ited. The above described waters are now 






88 iState Conservation Commission. ,,1 

officially known as "Lake Wisconsin" and not 
as the Wisconsin river. 

This order shall be in full force and effect on 
and after May 21, 1918. 

Any violation of this order shall be punished 
by a fine as prescribed for violations of Chapter 
29 of the Statutes as provided by subsection (4) 
of Section 29.21. 

Order No. 3 

It is hereby ordered that the following regula- 
tions and restrictions shall pertain to the taking 
and catching of fish in the waters of Balsam 
Lake in Polk County, Wisconsin. 

That part of said lake known as "The Ratskin's 
Bay" in Section 2-3, Township 34, Range 17 and 
that part of said lake known as "The Stumps" 
in Section 35, 36, Township 35, Range 17 shall be 
known as reserve waters and no fish of any kind 
shall be taken from such waters at any time or 
in any manner. 

This order shall be in full force and effect on 
and after June 2, 1918. 

Any violation of this order shall be punished 
by a- fine as prescribed for violations of Chapter 
668, Laws of 1917, and as provided by sub-section 
(2) of section 29.21. 

Order No. 4 

It is hereby ordered that the following regula- 
tions shall pertain to the waters of the Ba<raboo 
river in Sauk county. There shall be an absolute 
closed season for the taking of clams from 
March 1 to June 30, both dates inclusive. That 
during the open season i. e. from July 1 to 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 89 

February 28, both dates inclusive it shall be un- 
lawful to take clams by the use of any crow-foot 
bar, dredge, rake, or any other tool of equip- 
ment except that clamming may be done by hand 
only. Boats may be used in taking clams by 
hand. 

This order shall be in full force and effect on. 
and after June 10, 1918. 

Any violation of this order shall- be punished 
by a fine as prescribed for violations of chapter 
29 of the (Statutes as provided by subsection (4) 
Df section 29.21. 

Order No. 6 

It is hereby ordered, pursuant to section 29.21 
of the statutes, that the Little Niagara or 
Minnow creek, be and is hereby declared a closed 
locality for the taking, catching or killing of 
trout of any variety, from the first day of Janu- 
ary to the 31st day of December, of each and 
every year. 

Order No. 7 

It is hereby ordered pursuant to 29.21 of the 
Statutes', that no person shall take, capture or kill 
any muskellunge less than thirty inches in length 
or six pounds round weight, from any of the lakes 
or streams of Vilas County. 

i Further ordered that this order is to take effect 
and be in force on and after the 1st day of Sep- 
tember, and that a copy hereof be immediately filed 
in the office of the County Clerk of said County, 
of Vilas, and published in the Weekly News and 
Weekly Review newspapers published in the said 
County of Vilas and having a general circulation 
in the said county of Vilas. 



INDEX 



[Eeferences are to pages] 

Age, hunting privilege limited, 11 

Animals, see Game; Game fish; Wild animals; 

specific names: 
Arrests, 4 

Bag limits, bird and mammals, 19 

birds, mixed bag, 18 

hook and line fishing, 23 

mammals and birds, 19 

net fishing, outlying waters, 41 
Bass, close season and bag limit, 23 
Beaver, close season, 19 

injuring lands, 71 

skins, possession, 57 

traps near house or dam, 28 
Birds, see also Game; Game birds; Song birds: 

close seasons and bag limits, 19 

title in state, 2 
Black bass, close season and bag limit, 23 
Blinds, declared nuisances, 3 

on open water, 29 
Boarding houses, serving game, 9, 63 
Boats, declared nuisances, 3 

on open water, 3, 29 
Bobwhite, close seasons, 21 
Boys, below fifteen, barred from hunting, 11 
Brant, close seasons and bag limits, 20 

rifle may be used, 29 
Buildings, access by wardens, 5, 6. 

ice fishing, 3, 33 
Bullheads, bag limit, 24 

Camps, dogs in, 28 

serving game, 63 
Canoe, on open water, 29 
Carcass, definition, 1 



M Index 



[Eef erences are to pages] 

Carp minnows, transportation, 63 
Carriers, see Transportation 
Carrier pigeons, taking, 79 
Chemicals, deposit in waters, 34 
Chinese pheasant, close season, 21 
Cisco, net fishing in inland waters, 48 

oatmeal may be used through ice, 34 

spearing, 49 
Catfish, close seasons and bag limits, 24 
Clams, close seasons, 54, 56 

interstate license privilege, 55 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

license required, 53 

regulation of taking, 53 
Close seasons, birds, 19 

clams, 54, 56 

crawfish, 26 

frogs, 26 

hook and line fishing, 23 

mammals and birds, 19 

net fishing, outlying waters, 38 

possession of game during, 56 

transportation of game in, 58 
Clubs, serving game, 9, 63 
Confiscation, game, 6 

property, -7 

sales, 8 
Constables, assistance by, 9 
Coots, classed as ducks, 18 

close seasons and bag limits, 21 
County clerk, licenses issued by, 13 

set line licenses, 51 
Crawfish, close seasons, 26 

Dams, abandoned, 4 

fishing near, 30 

muskrats injuring, 71 

repairing on public lands, 4 
Damages, by beaver, 71 

deer, 73 

exemption of wardens from liability, 7 

mUskrats, 71 

rough fish, removal, 74 



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Decoys, declared nuisance, 3 

use in hunting game birds, 29 
Deer, close season and bag limit, 19 

dogs in hunting, 28 

heads, possession of, 57 

home consumption, 56 

injuring lands, 73 

lights in hunting, 2fi 

methods of hunting, 28 

shining prohibited, 26 

skins, possession of, 57 

tag must be attached, 56 

transportation, 59 
Deer tag, transfer prohibited, 11 
Definition, "carcass, ;; 1 

"Game," 1 

"game fish," 1 

"hunting," 2 

"inland waters," 2 

"outlying waters," 2 

"persons," 76 

' ' rough fish, ' ' 1 

"wild animals," 1 
Deleterious substances, deposit in waters, 34 
Dip nets, inland waters, 36 
. license not required, 35 

outlying waters, 38 
Dogs, declared nuisance, 4 

use in hunting, 28, 30 
Dogfish minnows, transportation, 63 
Ducks, close season and bag limit, 21 

rifle, use prohibited, 29 
Dynamite, fishing with, 33 

Eggs, game birds, 57 

31k, close season, 19 

English pheasant, close season, 21 

Explosives, fishing with, 33 

Express companies, see Transportation 

False impersonation, wardens, 77 
Ferrets, declared nuisance, 4 

possession, 27 

rabbit hunting, 29 

use prohibited, 26 



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[Beferences are to pages] 

Fish, see Game fish; Bough fish 
Fisher, close season, 19 

method of hunting, 28 

skin, possession, 57 
Fish hatcheries, 64, 66 
Fishing, cisco, spearing, 49 

declared nuisances, 3 

deleterious substances, 31 

dip nets in inland waters, 36 

dynamite, 33 

hook and line, methods, 31 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

licenses, hook and line, 16 

medicated bait, 34 

methods lawful, 31 

minnow nets, 37, 41 

net fishing, Mississippi waters, 45 

net fishing, outlying waters, 38 

net fishing, whitefish and cisco, 48 

net fishing, Winnebago waters, 49 

net licenses, general provisions, 34 

nets, measurements, 36 

nets, restrictions, 35 

offal, deposit in waters, 34 

outlying waters, net fishing, 38 

persons must carry license, 11 

places, prohibited, 30 

set line licenses, general provisions, 34 

set lines, inland waters, 51 

set lines, outlying waters, 38 

snag lines, 31 

spears, use of, 31 

spearing cisco, 49 

spearing pickerel in Mississippi waters, 32 

stupefactives, 33 

Whitefish and cisco nets, 48 

Winnebago waters, net fishing, 49 
Fish lines, unattended, declared nuisance, 3 
Fishways, fishing near, 30 
Free lunch, serving game, 64 
Frogs, close season, 26 
Fur-bearing animals, methods of hunting, 26, 28 

skins, possession, 57 
trapping licenses, 15 



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[Beferences are to pages] 

Game, see also specific animals 

boarding houses, serving, 63 

close seasons and bag limits, 19 

clubs, serving, 63 

confiscation, 6 

confiscation and sale, 8 

confiscated, use of, 9 

definition, 1 

free lunch, served at, 64 

hotels, serving, 63 

interstate transportation, 59 

licenses, (see Licenses) 

logging camps, serving, 63 

methods of hunting, 26, 28 

mining camps, serving, 63 

possession in close season, 56 

possession without license, 57 

restaurants, serving, 63 

shipments, labeling, 58 

sales, general restrictions, 63 

saloons, serving, 63 

seizures, 6 

title in state, 2 

transportation in close season, 58 

transportation employes not to carry, 58 

transportation, interstate, 58 

transportation, labeling shipments, 5S 

trunks and valises, 58 
Game birds, see also Game 

methods of hunting, 29, 26 

nests and eggs, 57 

transportation, 60 
Game fish, boarding houses serving, 63 

close seasons and bag limits, 23 

clubs, serving, 63 

confiscation, 6, 8, 9 

definition, 1 

foreign shipments, 62 

free lunch, served at, 64 

hook and line fishing, methods, 31 

hotels, serving, 63 

interstate transportation, 59 

length, lawful, 23, 41 

logging camps, serving, 63 



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measurement, 22 

mining camps, serving, 63 

possession in close season, 56 

possession, net fishing in outlying waters, 44 

restaurant, serving, 63 

sales, general restrictions, 63 

sales, net fishing in outlying waters, 44 : 

saloons, serving, 63 

seizure, 6, 8, 9 

shipments, labeling, 58 

title in state, 2 

transportation in close season, 58 

transportation employes not to carry, 58 

transportation, labeling shipments, 58 

transportation from hatcheries, 65 

transportation, interstate, 59 

transportation, net fishing in outlying waters, 44 

transportation from inland waters, 60 

trunks and valises, 58 
Game refuges, Forest county, 69 

muskrat farms, 69 

wild life refuges, 69 
Geese, close season and bag limits, 20 

rifle may be used, 29 
Grouse, close season, 21 
Guides, licenses, 27 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

wardens, acting as, 27 
Guinea-pigs, declared nuisance, 4 

use in hunting, 26 

Harmless birds, close season, 21 
Hotel, confiscated game, 9 

serving game, 63 
Hungarian partridge, close season, 21 
Hunting, age limit, 11 

citizenship required, 11 

declared nuisances, 3 

definition, 1 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

licenses, nonresident hunting, 14 

licenses, resident hunting, 14 

licenses, settlers hunting, 14 



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[Eeferences are to pages] 

methods, prohibited, 26 

non-citizens barred, 11 

persons must carry licenses, 11 
Indians, hunting, 11 
Ice fishing, buildings on ice, 3, 33 

cisco, oatmeal may be used, 34 

offal, leaving on ice, 34 

shelters, 33 

spearing cisco, 49 

spears in Mississippi waters, 32 

waters designated, 32 
Inland waters, see also Fishing 

dams, abandoned, 4 

declared nuisances, 3 

definition, 2 

deleterious substances, 34 

offal, deposit of, 34 
Interstate comity, clamming license privileges, 55 

license privileges, 17 

wardens, 9 
Investigations, by wardens, 5 

Lakes, deer hunting on, 28 

fish hatcheries, private, 64, 66 
Landing nets, 35 

Liability, exemption of wardens, 7 
Licenses, see also Fishing 

application, 11 

carrying on person, 11 

clamming, 54 

clamming, interstate privileges, 55 

duplicates, 12 

form, 12 

game, possession without license, 57 

general provisions, 11 

guides, 27 

hunting, alteration, 78 

hunting, false statement, 78 

hunting, nonresident, 14 

hunting, resident, 13 

hunting, settlers, 14 

interstate license privileges, 17 

muskrat farming, 69 



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net fishing, general restrictions, 34 

net fishing, Mississippi waters, 45 

net fishing, outlying waters, 38 

net fishing, whitefish and cisco, 48 

net fishing, Winnebago waters, 49 

nonresident hunting, 14 

persons hunting, fishing or trapping, must 
carry, 11 

possession of game without license, 57 

record of, 13 

resident hunting licenses, 13 

revocation of, 76 

set lines, inland waters, 51 

set lines, outlying waters, 38 

settlers hunting licenses, 14 

transfer prohibited, 11 

trapping, 15 
Lights, declared nuisances, 3 

deer hunting, 28 

use in hunting prohibited, 26 
Locks, fishing near 30 
Logging camps, dogs in, 28 

serving game, 63 

Mammals, close seasons and bag limits, 19 
Marten, close season, 19 

methods of hunting, 28 

skin, possession of, 57 
Medicated bait, fishing with, 34 
Mining camps, dogs in, 28 

game serving, 63 
Mink, close season, 19 

methods of hunting, 28 

skin, possession, 57 
Minnow nets, license not required, 35 

outlying waters, 41 

regulations, 37 
Minnows, carp and dogfish, transportation, 63 
Mississippi waters, net fishing regulated, 45 

spearing pickerel through ice, 32 
Mongolian pheasants, close season, 21 
Moose, close season, 19 



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[Eeferences are to pages] 

Mudhens, classed as ducks, 18 

close season and bag limit, 21 
Muskellunge, close season and bag limit, 23 
Muskrat, close season. 20 - 

farming license, 69 

injuring dams, 71 

methods of taking, 28 

skin, possession oi, oi 

traps near bouses, 28 
Mussels, see Clams 



Nests, game birds, 57 
Net licenses, see Fishing 
Nets, declared nuisance, 3 

dip nets, inland waters, 36 

fishing, license required, 34 

inland waters, whitefish and cisco, 48 

landing nets, 35 

measurement, 36 

minnow nets, 35, 41 

Mississippi waters, 45 

outlying waters, 38 

restrictions on use, 35 

use in bunting prohibited, 26 

Winnebago waters, 49 
Nonresidents, citizens only can bunt, 11 

fishing license, hook and line, 16 

hunting licenses, 14 
Nuisances, declared, 3 

Oatmeal, fishing cisco through ice, 34 
Offal, deposit in waters, 34 
Open water, definition, 29 

hunting, 29 
Otter, close season, 19 

skins, possession, 57 
Outlying waters, declared nuisances, 3 

definition, 2 

deleterious substances, 34 

minnow nets, 37 

net fishing, general provisions, 35 

net fishing regulated, 38 

net fishing, time for drawing nets, 36 



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[References are to pages] 

offal, deposit inj 34 
transportation of game fish, 6.0 

Packages, labeling, false, 6 

labeling shipments, 58 

opening, by wardens, 6 
Partridge, close season, 21 
Penalties, arrests, 4 

beaver, 72 

carrier pigeon, taking, 79 

confiscation, 2, 6 

declared nuisance, destruction, 3 

dynamite, 33 

false impersonation, 77 

general provisions, 75 

hatcheries, 80, 81 

hunting on lands of another, 79, 80 

license, alteration, 78 

license, false statement, 78 

net fishing, outlying waters, 44 

seals of commission, breaking, 78 

seizures, 2, 6 

serving game, 64 

snag lines, 31 

spring guns, 77 

stupefactives, 33 

trespass on private hatcheries, 65 
Perch, close season and bag limits, 24 
Persons, definition, 76 

license must be carried on person, 21 
Pickerel, close season and bag limits, 22 

foreign shipments, 62 

spearing through ice, 32 
Pike, close season and bag limits, 23 

foreign shipments, 62 
Pitfalls, use in hunting, 26 
Pivet guns, declared nuisances, 3 

use in hunting, 26 
Plover, close season and bag limits, 21 
Police officers, assistance by, 9 
Police powers, of wardens, 4 

interstate comity, 9 



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[Keferences are to pages] 

Ponds, deer hunting on, 28 

private fish hatcheries, 64, 66 
Possession, carriers employes not to carry game, 58 

deer, regulation, 56 

ferrets, 27 

frogs, 26 

game during close season, 56 

game, without license, 57 

game fish during close season, 56 

game fish, net fishing in outlying waters, 44 

heads and skins, 57 

skins of deer, 57 

skins of fur-bearing animals, 57 

title is in state, 2 
Prairie chicken, close season, 21 
Prosecutions, definition of "persons," 76 

penalty provisions, 76 

rewards to informers, 77 

Quail, close season, 21 

Rabbits, close seasons and bag limits, 20 

methods of hunting, 28 

skins, possession, 57 
Raccoon, close season and bag limits, 20 

den or tree, 28 

skin, possession, 57 
Raft, hunting on open water, 29 
Railroad companies, see Transportation 
Rails, close season and bag limits, 21 
Rats, declared nuisance, 4 

use in hunting, 26 
Refuges, game, 69 

game, Forest county, 69 

muskrat farming, 69 
Refuse, deposit in waters, 34 
Reports, clamming licenses, 55 

hatcheries, private, 65 

licenses issued, 

net fishing, Mississippi waters, 48 

net fishing, outlying waters, 44 

set line licenses, 52 

trapping licenses, 16 



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[References are to pages] 

Title, to wild animals, in state, 2 
Transportation, close season, during, 58 

deer, 59 

employes of carrier not to carry game, 58 

foreign shipments, 62 

game, general restrictions, 58 

game birds, restrictions, 60 

game fish, restrictions, 60 

game fish in close season, 58 

game fish from hatcheries, 65 

game fish, net fishing in outlying waters, 44 

interstate, 59 

opening packages, 6 

packages, labeling, 58 

rough fish, Mississippi waters, 45 

rough fish, Winnebago waters, 49 

trunks and valises containing game, 58 
Trapping, declared nuisances, 3 

licenses, general provisions, 11 

licenses, 15 

persons must carry license, 11 

reports, 16 
Traps, declared nuisances, 3 

rabbit hunting, 29 
Trespass, hunting on lands of another, 79, 80 
Trout, close seasons and bag limits, 23 

fishing restrictions, 30 
Trout streams, restrictions, 30 

spearing in, 31 
Trunks, game transported in, 58 

Valises, game transported in, 58 
Vehicles, carrying guns in, 26 

Wardens, exemption from liability, 7 
false impersonation, 77 
guides as special wardens, 27 
interstate comity, 9 
liability, exemption from, 7 
net fishing, licensee to carry warden, 35 
packages, opening, 6 
police officers to assist, 9 
police powers, 4 
storage places, access to, 6 



Index 103 

[Keferences are to pages] 

Warehouses, access by wardens, 6 

Waste, deposit in waters, 34 

Waters, see Inland waters; Open water; Outlying 

waters 
Weasles, declared nuisances, 4 

use in hunting, 26 
White bass, close seasons and bag limit, 23 
Whitefish, net fishing in inland waters, 48 
Wild animals, see also Fur-bearing animals; Game; 
Game fish 

definition, 1 

title in state, 2 
Wind shields, ice fishing, 33 
Winnebago waters, net fishing, 49 
Woodcock, close seasons, 21 



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FOR HIS 

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SEE THAT HE CARRIES HIS 

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SEE THAT YOUR GUIDE IS LICENSED 

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HIM AS A PROFESSIONAL 

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The Conservatioi 
to prevent forest f 003 025 343 5 
every person who goes into the wooas ior mi, 
ness or pleasure to make its work effective. 

The Danger from Forest Fires Cannot be 
Eliminated without the Cooperation of Every 
Citizen of the State. 

IF YOU ARE A GUIDE, the burning of forests 
where you take parties for pleasure, means 
the loss of your source of employment. 

IF YOU ARE A CAMPER, a single bad fores 
fire may destroy the attractive features o 
your favorite camp site. 

IF YOU ARE A FISHERMAN OR HUNTER 
your sport may be spoiled by the burnini 
over of the forest you visit every year. 

FIRE PREVENTION MEANS 

Increased value of property 

Flourishing industries 

More fish and game 

Beautiful scenery 

Freer use of forest land for all. 
DON'T leave burning cigars, cigarettes or pip« 

ashes where they may set fire to inflam 

mable material. 
DON'T leave your camp fire until you are ABSO- 
LUTELY SURE it is out. 
DON'T set fires to clear land or burn brush in 

dry times. 

PUT OUT ALL FIRES YOU SEE IF YOU CAN 
If the fire is too large for you to put out alon< 
notify the nearest Conservation warden, AT 
ONCE. By putting out small fires you can pre- 
vent big ones. 



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